Open Food Facts SKOS export
Revealing the hidden potential of Open Food Facts taxonomies
Open Food Facts is a collaborative database containing data on close to 5 million food products from around the world, in open data. It contains multilingual taxonomies for e.g. food categories, ingredients, packaging, processing. This project brings the richness of the Open Food Facts multilingual taxonomies to scientific and app builders through the use of Simple Knowledge Organization System - a W3C recommendation designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, and other types of structured controlled vocabulary. This retains better data consistency, saves users from the trouble of ad hoc converting, and enabling new innovations. The project will bridge Open Food Facts with the semantic web, and in addition provide an easy to use, self-deployed, service to serve common use cases for applications dealing with food.
- The project's own website: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Taxonomies_introduction
Run by Open Food Facts
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
