Food Product Ontology: Initial Implementation of a Vocabulary for Describing Food Products

Semantic technologies are becoming an important part of the current Web, more and more information are being published with the semanticly enriching markup such as RDFa and microformats, and more services started consuming this information. The food product field is not an exception, the manufacturies and retailers, goverments and instituations looking for ways to publish their data and maximize re-use of the data. The main component of any semantic dataset are ontologies that it uses. The paper describes the initial version of ontology for describing food products that aims to provide the all interested parties with a common vocabulary for better integration and collaboration