{"id":37,"date":"2024-05-23T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:08:43","slug":"livestock-data-linkage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/projects\/livestock-data-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions for Livestock Data Linkage and Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/06\/Williamson-Digital-Animal-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" style=\"width:768px;height:512px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/06\/Williamson-Digital-Animal-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/06\/Williamson-Digital-Animal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/06\/Williamson-Digital-Animal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/06\/Williamson-Digital-Animal-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/06\/Williamson-Digital-Animal-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: Hugh Williamson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Livestock traceability systems in Britain and the European Union involving the allocation of unique lifetime identifiers to individual animals create new possibilities for integrating large quantities of data about animals\u2019 health, management, productivity and movements. Yet there is currently little investigation into how such data should be used and governed, including whom it should benefit. This project uses the case of sheep farming in Britain to ask: What visions do diverse actors in the sector have for data integration and governance, what issues, challenges and tensions arise from these visions? The research, currently in progress, draws on documentary analysis, focus groups and interviews with actors across the British sheep industry in order to identify principles for the responsible development of national livestock data systems that are inclusive and responsive to the needs of diverse communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have published a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.animal.2025.101683\">position piece on animal data sharing<\/a> in the journal <em>animal. <\/em>The research has been included in the University of Exeter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/universityofexeter\/docs\/images_of_research_2023\">Images of Research competition 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Hugh Williamson Livestock traceability systems in Britain and the European Union involving the allocation of unique lifetime identifiers to individual animals create new possibilities for integrating large quantities of data about animals\u2019 health, management, productivity and movements. Yet there is currently little investigation into how such data should be used and governed, including whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1877,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Visions for Livestock Data Linkage and Governance - Digital Animals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/digitalanimals\/projects\/livestock-data-linkage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Visions for Livestock Data Linkage and Governance - Digital Animals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image: Hugh Williamson Livestock traceability systems in Britain and the European Union involving the allocation of unique lifetime identifiers to individual animals create new possibilities for integrating large quantities of data about animals\u2019 health, management, productivity and movements. 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