FoodOn related events at ICBO 2022 and US2TS 2022

[Damion Dooley]

EVENTS:

Food Process Ontology Hackathon Sunday September 25th at ICBO 2022 in Ann Arbour Michigan

As the ICBO Workshop program indicates, "A food processing discussion group within the Joint Food Ontology Workgroup has proposed a general OBO Foundry compatible food processing ontology and more specific recipe model which is currently focused on the combination of ingredients, devices, and recipe steps. The recipe model needs to be tested out on real-world recipe databases, to develop the kinds of RDF data structures and queries that are of practical use within food science, but which also have direct application in interoperability with other ontology-driven models of nutrient estimation, food related individual and population health, environmental impact of ingredients, and food supply chain traceability. This workshop aims to create RDF views of other recipe database content from the perspective of OBO Foundry ontologies, including FoodOn, ChEBI, and units of measure ontologies. Hacking can take on a number of challenges including Named Entity Recognition of recipe ingredients in free text recipes, to the representation of multi-component foods such as contained in food composition databases (e.g. world.openfoodfacts.org), to the transformation of semi-normalized recipe databases into pure food process ontology form. Additional work on expanding the recipe ontology representation beyond its “lab bench” purview into more nuanced cultural and historical representation of food knowledge is welcome too!"

Agenda will be available shortly at https://foodon.org/food-process-ontology-hackathon-icbo-2022/ 

The ICBO schedule indicates activities start at 9am Eastern on Sunday the 25th. For remote participants who have registered (free for remote attendance), zoom information will be sent out shortly by ICBO organizers.

Agriculture and Nutrition Ontology Connectivity workshop Friday September 30th at US2TS 2022 in East Lansing Michigan

As the US2TS program indicates, beginning at 10:30am on Friday, three Food & Health sessions will take a deep dive into the field-level agricultural modelling and biosample contextual data required for research along the farm-to-fork nutritional landscape. Agriculture (AGRO) and nutrition (CDNO) ontology curators will be present to facilitate discussion and feedback on specification development. Workshop will seek to attain a generic data collection model that is refine-able for domain specific sampling such as fisheries and aquaculture that capture variables such as fish feeding, chemical treatments, etc.

Contact damion...@sfu.ca if you can only attend this remotely. 

[Damion Dooley]

More detail on our upcoming discussion seminar!

As the US2TS program indicates, beginning at 10:30am on Friday in East Lansing Michigan, three Food & Health sessions will take a deep dive into the field-level agricultural modelling and biosample contextual data required for research along the farm-to-fork nutritional landscape. Agriculture (AGRO) and nutrition (CDNO) ontology curators will be present to facilitate discussion and feedback on specification development. Workshop will seek to attain a generic data collection model that is refine-able for domain specific sampling such as fisheries and aquaculture that capture variables such as fish feeding, chemical treatments, etc.

Schedule

September 30, 2022, Friday, Room 1

10:30-12:00 EST

• Food & Health I
  Graham King: Introduction and motivation of session
  Overview of the process and context for sample collection in support of nutrition research (farm to fork), and the challenge of generalizing e.g. to different pre- and post-harvest sample collection in different AgFood production and supply systems (open field, protected env., soil vs other media, hydroponics, plant, livestock, fishery) defined by specific environments and management practices etc.
  Liliana Andres Hernandez: Metrics and methodology
  The development of nutritional recorded values, and standards for their collection, as represented in method process pipelines to describe chemical component concentrations. The ontology community /domains needed to support this. Case examples and preliminary analysis for analytical methodologies.
  Discussion

1:00-2:30 EST

• Food & Health II
  Marie Angelique Laporte: 
  The formalization of plant cultivar production contextual data and their dietary nutritional components should support the analysis of   environmental factors’ impact on the nutritional value of food products. Environmental conditions of production (soil quality, soil nutrients availability, fertilizer applications, etc) have indeed an impact on the chemistry of food products. Therefore, an alignment is necessary of contextual data captured during the sampling, measurement and analysis processes that are used in AgFood/Health sector. In addition to documenting the direct metadata of food samples to be analysed, complementary metrics are required to document food production, packaging, and food processing conditions.
  Continued discussion

3:00- 4:30 EST

• Food & Health III
  Chris Mungall: Soil Biosample Metadata 
  The National Microbiome Data Collaborative is collecting soil sample microbiome contextual data using the MIxS Soil specification expressed in LinkML, via the https://data.microbiomedata.org/ data portal and ontology-compatible DataHarmonizer spreadsheet tool.  A similar approach could power other farm-to-fork nutritional data collection points.
  Continued discussion