Dan Smith
Co-Founder And Partner at Colectica
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Smith is a co-founder and partner who has spent 15+ years building tools and services that make statistical and survey research data machine-actionable using open standards. Based in Minneapolis, he leads Colectica to help universities and national statistical offices capture provenance-rich metadata across the full data lifecycle from creation to long-term stewardship. His background blends semantic web research (RDF/OWL/LSIDs) at IBM with academic data management in ecology, and a master's in computer science and biostatistics, giving him a rare mix of formal methods and domain-focused data modeling. He has a track record of applied distributed-systems and data-modeling projects through his prior company Algenta, including collaborations with public health and robotics labs. A fan of rooted digraphs, he brings a graph-theoretic lens to tooling design that makes complex relationships explicit and automatable. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, standards-driven solutions where provenance and metadata accuracy are mission-critical.
15 years of coding experience
Masters Computer Science Biostatistics, Masters Computer Science Biostatistics at University of MinnesotaBS Computer Science History, BS Computer Science History at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (86)
ontology10
metadata10
migradoc10
rdf10
csharp10
xsd10
xsd-schema10
dotnet9
api9
graphql-tools9
winforms9
bcp9
pdf-generation9
numerics9
regression9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DanSmith/DDISchemaCheck
Aug 2013 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 17 commits, 9 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Colectica/ddiregistry
Dec 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 17 pushes in 7 years 3 months
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