By Justin Francis, LINCS Junior Programmer A general Extract Transform Load process In data science there is a commonly used process called extract-transform-load (ETL). ETL involves three main steps: 1. Extract data from a source, 2. Transform the data via data cleansing and data manipulation, and 3. Load the transformed data to a data warehouse […]

By Sarah Mousseau, LINCS undergraduate research assistant In the summer of 2020, I was hired as a research assistant with the University of Guelph’s Bachinski/Chu Print Study Collection. Initially, my job entailed the care and maintenance of the objects in the collection with a few other tasks as assigned. Of course, the arrival of the COVID-19 […]

By Devon Hayley Farrell, LINCS metadata co-op If there’s one thing I have learned during my library, archival, and information graduate studies, it is that information institutions are adverse to change. The archival profession progresses at a glacial pace. This is juxtaposed with the leaps and bounds made in information technology over the past twenty-five […]