FAIR principles and concrete steps the Census recommends for AI-ready metadata
Census geographers framed FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) as the starting point and outlined machine-actionable practices: persistent identifiers, rich metadata, open transport protocols, controlled vocabularies, and publishing metadata at dataset and variable levels.
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During the webinar, the Census presentation tied the FAIR principles to AI readiness and gave concrete engineering steps. The speaker recommended globally unique persistent identifiers for discoverability, rich descriptive metadata for context, and explicit dataset identifiers so automated systems never lose the documentation that explains a file's vintage and scope.
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