William R. Pape

TL;DR: The BeefLink as mentioned in this paper software includes components for data collection and real-time data lookup components; share, switch, route, and interface components; extract, transform, and load components; and report and analyze data components.

TL;DR: In this article, an efficient method and apparatus for livestock data collection and management is described to provide quality assurance source verification data and performance tracking for individual animals throughout the production cycle, which includes unique radio frequency identification (RFID) transponders for each animal; unique RFID transponder for animal events; default event data capability; a portable and wireless RFID reader to read the animal and event data; a multiple input/output device to accept the reader signals and livestock measurement data and to communicate by means of a wireless radio communication to a host computer; a feedback

TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for agricultural data collection and management is described to provide quality assurance source verification data and performance tracking for agricultural items throughout the production cycle, where individual item data is efficiently collected, transferred, and shared in a transactional, event-oriented, row-oriented structure with few columns without need for creating relational structures.

TL;DR: In this article, a system of private data networks for sharing food ingredient information across production segments is described, where each network has shared communication between enterprise applications and one or more transactional event database for acquiring and storing event data for measurements, inputs, processing, transfers, and transformations of uniquely identified units of production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a label claim validation system in which identification information uniquely identifying an item that has moved through a node in a supply chain is received, the item being marked with a label claims.