FoodOn related announcements

[Damion Dooley]

A new FoodOn release is coming!

Currently in the master branch on GitHub are some significant changes, which will be converted into a new release soon!

• foodon.owl is now a single ~40Mb file.  All import files have been merged into it, and as well some reasoning that makes it easier to query for simple axioms related to food and other classes, for example 'in taxon' connecting fruits and other plant parts to their plant organism.  We have added 300+ plant x organism terms, many augmented with taxon (e.g. "apple (whole) and 'in taxon' some Malus domestica".  Coming soon are 400+ new meat related classes, all done in order to provide fairly precise coverage of USDA SR Legacy single source foods. (Tech note: some BFO terms are being punned as instances but this will disappear when fixed in an upstream ontology).
• foodon-base.owl is foodon.owl minus all the food products, leaving one with just the vocabulary to describe food products.  This file still needs some cleaning.
• foodon-synonyms.tsv has been enhanced to include 'in taxon' links to organisms, making taxon much easier to lookup.
• Under the hood, we have switched to representing imports by .ofn OWL functional syntax rather than .owl rdf/xml format.  We hope this doesn't cause inconvenience.  We have left the current .owl import files in the GitHub repository root folder's /imports/ folder for the time being.

Feedback welcome,

Regards,

The FoodOn Curation Team!