existing open datasets for foods

[Chacha Sikes]

Langual

The USDA uses this food thesaurus framework for referring to foods.

http://www.langual.org/download/LanguaL2010/LANGUAL2010NUMERCALINDEX.TXT

http://www.langual.org/download/LanguaL2010/LanguaL%202010%20Multilingual%20Thesaurus%20Final.pdf

and there's this from the USDA

"USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference"

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964

http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12354500/Data/SR24/asc/FOOD_DES.txt

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=22113

Library of Congress Subject Headers File

and this is the library of congress subject headers -- which does have some food stuff, but not specifically organized around food.

http://id.loc.gov/download/

It will be interesting to compare the lists of foods to see what kinds of differences exist between government funded & commercially produced lists and crowd-contributed lists. And then to see what the gardeners and seedsavers care about. 

Other existing datasets that I have been looking at

• Foodista
• Freebase Foods, and Local Foods
• Food Genome

And there is a reference to the PLU's which Anthony cleaned up from a Produce and Marking set

http://buzzdata.com/foodtree/produce-plus#!/overview

I suppose that I am sort of building crosswalks between these items -- pointing to references of a food in the different datasets.

[Paolo Castagna]

Hi,
I work for Kasabi and, together with colleagues from the data
engineering team, I curated the data we have in the Kasabi food
dataset:

- http://kasabi.com/dataset/food/
- http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/food

You can find ~10 million statements there with data coming from:
Foodista, BBC Food, Cookbook, Cookipedia, Eat The Seasons, Get Me
Cooking, Jamie Oliver, Pong Cheese, River Cottage, Riverford, Tesco,
UKTV, ...

I've used this 'schema'/vocabulary: http://linkedrecipes.org/schema

I was working on something about cheese, you can find an initial
dataset (and code to generate that) here:
https://github.com/castagna/cheese/blob/master/data/cheeses-0.1.ttl
I am sorry ;-) but it's a lot of Java and RDF (but it can be quickly
converted/exported in other formats if needed).

Have a look.

Paolo

On Feb 19, 12:43 am, Chacha Sikes <chachasi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Langual*
> The USDA uses this food thesaurus framework for referring to foods.http://www.langual.org/download/LanguaL2010/LANGUAL2010NUMERCALINDEX.TXThttp://www.langual.org/download/LanguaL2010/LanguaL%202010%20Multilin...

>
> and there's this from the USDA
> "USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference"http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964
>

> http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12354500/Data/SR24/asc/FOO...http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=22113
>
> *Library of Congress Subject Headers File*

> and this is the library of congress subject headers -- which does have some

> food stuff, but not specifically organized around food.http://id.loc.gov/download/

>
> It will be interesting to compare the lists of foods to see what kinds of
> differences exist between government funded & commercially produced lists
> and crowd-contributed lists. And then to see what the gardeners and
> seedsavers care about.
>
> Other existing datasets that I have been looking at
>

>    - Foodista
>    - Freebase Foods, and Local Foods
>    - Food Genome

>
> And there is a reference to the PLU's which Anthony cleaned up from a

> Produce and Marking sethttp://buzzdata.com/foodtree/produce-plus#!/overview