# bel — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bel. Page: Feed: --- ## Professor Saúde: Qual o impacto da atividade física para a saúde mental ? _2026-08-18 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/8d/14/79/1026554b3a85235f04be304944.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: Por que fazer exercícios físicos regularmente ? _2026-08-17 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/17/67/5c/c786764636bf9aefcdfc5c2266.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: Qual a importância do aquecimento na atividade física ? _2026-08-14 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/f5/b7/30/e1e23e4fd88e34abfb6a8575f6.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: Como a atividade física pode auxiliar uma pessoa com TDAH ? _2026-08-13 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/b3/d4/2e/f2f2694410a1f0546eefb64ffe.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: Como está as crianças que foram avaliadas ? _2026-08-12 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias. [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/94/9c/4b/a634be434998c395261532b70c.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: Treinar 1 hora por dia, é suficiente para anular os efeitos de passar 8 horas sentado ? _2026-08-11 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias. [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/d4/03/d3/3455c148bbb0c3a6755f1bd489.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: Por que treinar com febre ou sintomas sistêmicos graves é perigoso para o coração ? _2026-08-10 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias. [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/7b/36/eb/a01e074f63a969d06a6358f49a.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: Como devo fazer exercícios físicos durante minha atividade laboral ? _2026-08-07 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias. [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/e2/a0/27/db600f4721b1977eb689548615.mp4) ## [Mapping from SSSOM to OWL](https://cthoyt.com/2026/08/07/sssom-to-owl.html) _2026-08-07 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ The Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) specifies a transformation from its data model to the to Web Ontology Language (OWL) its documentation. This post is about implementing and extending that transformation in the sssom-pydantic Python package and the implications for ontology curation and maintenance, especially within the context of NFDI4Chem. ## [Standards Don’t Succeed Without Community Work](https://cthoyt.com/2026/08/07/standards-need-community-work.html) _2026-08-07 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ In March 2026, the NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem issued a request for comments for a proposal for a knowledge graph exchange format entitled JSON Knowledge Graph Exchange Format (JKG). This post is about the burden of proposing yet another standard and highlights sage wisdom from Nico Matentzoglu about the importance of community work in pushing standards. ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5wPBMG1QHh1g) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## Professor Saúde: Como deve ser estruturado o treino para combater a fadiga crônica ? _2026-08-06 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias. [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/22/e4/8f/81725d4b66b1689c160c5f939e.mp4) ## Professor Saúde: De que forma o exercício físico, pode prevenir recaídas em indivíduos dependente de álcool ? _2026-08-05 · Professor Saúde_ Professor Antônio Carlos Gomes traz informações sobre atividades físicas para todas as faixas etárias. [Listen](https://s3.castbox.fm/ae/29/38/0e106c4ca590e89c18bb95d8ec.mp4) ## [Feeling the Summer Vacation High!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/feeling-the-summer-vacation-high) _2026-08-04 · Bel Canto Books_ A Bookseller’s Family Vacation to Boston + Palm Desert ## [LLM Notes and Policies](https://cthoyt.com/2026/07/18/llm-notes.html) _2026-07-18 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ Generative artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs), and agentic artificial intelligence have become unavoidable topics of conversation for programmers and scientists alike. This post comprises links to external writing about these topics from which I would like to draw inspiration when crafting my own communication and policies. ## [Happy Summer Reading!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/happy-summer-reading) _2026-07-09 · Bel Canto Books_ Slowing Down to Savor the Days at Bel Canto Books ## [Join Us for the 4th Festival of AAPI Books (FAB) Long Beach!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/join-us-for-the-4th-festival-of-aapi) _2026-06-30 · Bel Canto Books_ Happy almost July, book peeps! ## [Comparing manually curated semantic mappings in SSSOM](https://cthoyt.com/2026/06/19/comparing-sssom.html) _2026-06-19 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ I am currently supporting Philip Strömert and Noura Rayya in the efforts to modernize and revitalize the Chemical Methods Ontology (CHMO) to support annotation of instrumentation used to produce experimental data captured in the Chemotion electronic laboratory notebook as part of NFDIChem. This post is about the adoption of Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) to support… ## [Happy Pride Month from Bel Canto Books!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/happy-pride-month-from-bel-canto) _2026-06-04 · Bel Canto Books_ We’re almost halfway through 2026! ## [A practical approach to translate OWL to SKOS](https://cthoyt.com/2026/06/03/owl-to-skos.html) _2026-06-03 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ The data model in PyOBO closely resembles the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and macros in the OBO Flat File format. However, some communities prefer the simplified nature of the SKOS data model compared to the highly precise (and sometimes burdensome) nature of OWL semantics. This post describes the workflow I implemented to downscale OWL to SKOS. ## [Transparent provenance for derived semantic mappings in SSSOM](https://cthoyt.com/2026/05/29/sssom-derived-from.html) _2026-05-29 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ The Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) requires semantic mappings to annotate a justification from the Semantic Mapping Vocabulary (SEMAPV) such as semapv:ManualMappingCuration, semapv:MappingInversion, and semapv:MappingChaining. However, SSSOM did not have a mechanism for tracking which mappings were used during inference workflows like inversion or chaining. This post is… ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tuuypyqiRBoD) _2026-05-29 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [Discussions at the 7th NFDI4Chem Consortium Meeting](https://cthoyt.com/2026/05/18/nfdi4chem-7th-consortium-meeting.html) _2026-05-18 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ The 7th NFDI4Chem consortium meeting took place last week in Jena. This post is a summary of some of the interesting discussions I had there. ## [Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/happy-asian-pacific-american-heritage-fec) _2026-05-12 · Bel Canto Books_ We Survived Bookchella! ## [Happy LAT Festival of Books Weekend!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/happy-lat-festival-of-books-weekend) _2026-04-16 · Bel Canto Books_ Ready for “Bookchella” at USC this Sat 4/18 - Sun 4/19! ## [It’s Bookchella Month at Bel Canto Books](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/its-bookchella-month-at-bel-canto) _2026-04-07 · Bel Canto Books_ Gearing up for some serious #booknerd heaven this month! ## [International Society of Biocuration Presents: Curate This!](https://cthoyt.com/2026/03/03/curate-this.html) _2026-03-03 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ While researchers typically communicate their work through poster presentations, oral presentations, and written communication, programmers often give (live) demonstrations. I’m not aware of any technical nor practical barriers for why curators couldn’t do the same, and always wished that curators did this more often. This post is about how I planned to make this a reality by starting a podcast… ## [March Events, Book Clubs + More!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/march-events-book-clubs-more) _2026-02-26 · Bel Canto Books_ Happy almost March, book peeps! ## [Efficient Bulk Access to Citations in OpenCitations](https://cthoyt.com/2026/02/10/opencitations-client.html) _2026-02-10 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ OpenCitations aggregates and deduplicates bibliographic information from CrossRef, Europe PubMed Central, and other sources to construct a comprehensive, open index of citations between scientific works. This post describes the opencitations-client package which wraps the OpenCitations API and implements an automated pipeline for locally downloading, caching, and accessing OpenCitations in bulk. ## [February Preview at Bel Canto Books!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/february-preview-at-bel-canto-books) _2026-01-28 · Bel Canto Books_ Taking stock and taking a stand ## [Challenges with Semantic Mappings](https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/20/semantic-mapping-challenges.html) _2026-01-20 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ There are many challenges associated with the curation, publication, acquisition, and usage of semantic mappings. This post examines their philosophical, technical, and practical implications, highlights existing solutions, and describes opportunities for next steps for the community of curators, semantic engineers, software developers, and data scientists who make and use semantic mappings. ## [Semantic Mappings Enable Automated Assembly](https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/16/mappings-for-automated-assembly.html) _2026-01-16 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ Data and knowledge originating from heterogeneous sources often use heterogeneous controlled vocabularies and/or ontologies for annotating named entities. Semantic mappings are essential towards resolving these discrepancies and integrating in a coherent way. This post highlights how this looks in two scenarios: when constructing a knowledge graph for graph machine learning and when constructing a… ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hIPjs4N6RzWN) _2026-01-16 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [Mapping from SSSOM to JSKOS](https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/15/sssom-to-jskos.html) _2026-01-15 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ JSKOS (JSON for Knowledge Organization Systems) is a JSON-based data model for representing terminologies, thesauri, classifications, and other semantic artifacts. Like the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM), it can also encode semantic mappings. This post is about developing and implementing a crosswalk between them in the sssom-pydantic Python package. ## [Happy(-ish) New Year from Bel Canto Books!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/happy-ish-new-year-from-bel-canto) _2026-01-14 · Bel Canto Books_ What the heck, 2026?!?! ## [Mapping from SSSOM to Wikidata](https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/08/sssom-to-wikidata.html) _2026-01-08 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ At the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop in Limburg an der Lahn, I proposed an initial crosswalk between the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) and the Wikidata semantic mapping data model. This post describes the motivation for this proposal and the concrete implementation I’ve developed in sssom-pydantic. ## [Validating Prefix Maps in LinkML Schemas](https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/06/bioregistry-linkml-validation.html) _2026-01-06 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ LinkML enables defining data models and data schemas in YAML informed by semantic web best practices. As such, each definition includes a prefix map. Similarly to my previous posts on validating the prefix maps appearing in Turtle files and in unfamiliar SPARQL endpoints, this post showcases describes a new extension to the Bioregistry that validates prefix maps in LinkML definitions. ## [Books I Read in 2025](https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/01/books-in-2025.html) _2026-01-01 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ Here are the books I read in 2025. My goals for the year were to get some more variety, and I think I managed that. ## [Annotating the Literature with Named Entity Recognition](https://cthoyt.com/2025/12/19/annotating-the-literature-demo.html) _2025-12-19 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ Annotating the literature with mentions of key concepts from a given domain is often the first step towards extracting more substantial structured knowledge. This can be challenging, as it typically encompasses acquiring and processing the relevant literature and ontologies then installing and applying difficult-to-use named entity recognition (NER) workflows. This post highlights software… ## [One Week ‘Til Xmas, book peeps!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/one-week-til-xmas-book-peeps) _2025-12-18 · Bel Canto Books_ Holiday Hours at Bel Canto Books ## [Happy December, book peeps!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/happy-december-book-peeps) _2025-12-09 · Bel Canto Books_ The Ho-Ho-Holidays Are in Full Swing at Bel Canto Books! ## [Machine-Actionable Training Materials at BioHackathon Germany 2025](https://cthoyt.com/2025/12/09/biohackathon-de-2025.html) _2025-12-09 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ I recently attended the 4th BioHackathon Germany hosted by the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI). I participated in the project On the Path to Machine-actionable Training Materials in order to improve the interoperability between DALIA, TeSS, mTeSS-X, and Schema.org. This post gives a summary of the activities leading up to the hackathon and the results of our happy… ## [Giving Thanks for Family, Friends + Community](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/giving-thanks-for-family-friends) _2025-11-25 · Bel Canto Books_ Happy almost Thanksgiving, book peeps! ## [Extracting Semantic Mappings from BioPortal in SSSOM](https://cthoyt.com/2025/11/23/sssom-from-bioportal.html) _2025-11-23 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ Earlier this week, a question was asked on OBO Foundry Slack on where to find semantic mappings to terms in the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT). While some are available in the SeMRA Disease Mappings Database, there are many more available within BioPortal, which has access to the entire SNOMED-CT source data and has produced semantic mapping predictions using… ## [Gift a Bel Canto Books Membership!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/gift-a-bel-canto-books-membership) _2025-11-19 · Bel Canto Books_ Support Our Mission–Join Bel Canto Books Memberships Today! ## [Happy Indigenous Heritage Month!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/happy-indigenous-heritage-month) _2025-11-04 · Bel Canto Books_ Happy Indigenous Heritage Month, book peeps! ## [October 2025: Happy Fil-Am History Month!](https://belcantobooks.substack.com/p/october-2025-happy-fil-am-history) _2025-10-15 · Bel Canto Books_ Happy, happy Filipino American History Month, book peeps (aka our busiest events month of the year)! ## [Databases as Ontologies Part 1 - Background and Software](https://cthoyt.com/2025/10/14/databases-as-ontologies-1-background.html) _2025-10-14 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ This is the first of a two-part post about encoding databases as ontologies. In this post, I give a background on the problems in biocuration that led me to start encoding databases as ontologies, the software I have written to do it, and the repository I have created to store the resulting artifacts in a FAIR, open, and sustainable way. See also the second part which describes how I applied these… ## [Databases as Ontologies Part 2 - A Case Study with HGNC](https://cthoyt.com/2025/10/14/databases-as-ontologies-2-hgnc.html) _2025-10-14 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ This is the second of a two-part post about encoding databases as ontologies. In the first part, I gave a background on how I started working on this problem and the software stack I developed along the way. In this post, I explain the philosophy and design about how I encoded the HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee) database as an ontology using PyOBO. ## [Bridging NFDI’s culture and chemistry knowledge graphs](https://cthoyt.com/2025/10/07/bridging-culture-and-chemistry.html) _2025-10-07 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ At the sixth NFDI4Chem consortium meeting, Torsten Schrade from the NFDI4Culture consortium gave a lovely and whimsical talk entitled A Data Alchemist’s Journey through NFDI which explored ways that we might federate and jointly query both consortia’s knowledge via their respective SPARQL endpoints. He proposed a toy example in which he linked paintings depicting alchemists trying to make gold to… ## [Representing Negative Knowledge](https://cthoyt.com/2025/10/07/negative-rdf.html) _2025-10-07 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ Representing negative knowledge in the semantic web is an open problem. This post is going to be a living document where I keep notes on use cases, potential solutions, and awful hacks. ## [Suggesting new relations in ROR from Wikidata](https://cthoyt.com/2025/09/25/enriching-ror-with-wikidata.html) _2025-09-25 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ I was looking at the different NFDI consortia in the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and found that the only two that have a parent relations to the NFDI (ror:05qj6w324) are NFDI4DS (ror:00bb4nn95) and MaRDI (ror:04ncnzm65). This felt strange to me, so I started looking around Wikidata to see if I could automatically make a curation sheet to send along to them. I found that Wikidata already… ## [Switching from using Tox to Just](https://cthoyt.com/2025/09/21/tox-to-just.html) _2025-09-21 · Charles Tapley Hoyt · Biopragmatics_ I became aware of just while watching Hynek’s second video on uv a few months ago. I immediately fell in love with its elegance and simplicity, so I have begun replacing task running in my repositories that relied on tox with just. This post gives a bit of background, context, and walks through making the switch on one of my repositories that has some annoying dependencies.