Open Prices - Scaling price collection
Crowdsourced consumer product price collection
Open Prices is the first open database of food prices collected through crowdsourcing. In less than a year, over 100,000 prices have been added by the Open Food Facts community. This project aims to scale price collection by developing machine learning tools to extract prices and barcodes from store shelf images. We will also build tools to improve data quality and enable community moderation. The overall goal is to make price data openly available for consumers, researchers, and public bodies, and to foster transparency, accessibility, and reuse of food pricing information.
- The project's own website: https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/
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).
