IFOW 2023 Integrated Food Ontology Workshop, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

The fourth annual Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW), a half-day workshop at the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conference (FOIS) 2023 in Sherbrooke, Quebec July 17-20th, is now finished! The IFOW workshop was in 2 parts on Wednesday July 19th in the afternoon (2pm-3:30 EST; 4pm-5:30 EST). We had a total of about 27 attendees…

Agriculture and Nutrition Ontology Connectivity Workshop Friday Sept. 30th at US2TS 2022, East Lansing, Michigan

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…

Food Process Ontology Hackathon September 25 at ICBO 2022, Ann Arbour Michigan

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…

IFOW 2021 Integrated Food Ontology Workshop, September 15-18, Bolzano Italy

The 2nd Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW) is a hybrid virtual and on-site workshop held at the 12th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies September 15-18, 2021 (ICBO, https://icbo2021.inf.unibz.it/) in Bolzano Italy (part of the overall Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO event, see https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2021/). This follows the successful 1st IFOW workshop last year – see its abstracts and…

ICBO 2020 Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW)

Building the farm to fork digital highway: integrated food ontology development for agricultural, food science and public health domains This is a virtual conference beginning September 16th, 2020 presented as part of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO) presence within BOSC 2020 (see https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/accepted-workshops/).  We will be having 2 hour virtual conferences, once a week, at 6am…

FoodOn at IC-Foods.org San Francisco / Davis, MARCH 22-25, 2019

We’re involved in plenty of discussion and workshopping over the course of the IC-Foods conference. Key topics will be how FoodOn can integrate with an ecosystem of ontologies that support projects involving nutrition and crop research – this aligns with our work with USDA Agriculture Research Service. See us on Sunday at 10:40 am in…

FoodOn inaugural paper published in Nature Partner Journals Science of Food

The FoodOn consortium is happy to announce our paper that describes the history, current design and future direction of the FoodOn ontology. It is titled “FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration” and is available as a pdf at https://rdcu.be/bdLun or on the web at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-018-0032-6 .