FOODpediaA DBpedia of Food Products

Maxim Lapaev, Maxim KolchinITMO University

Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference 2014, Kazan, Russia

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is an effort to extract information about food products from various sources and to make this information accessible on the Web in a structured way leveraging Linked Data principles and technologies.

Sources

FOODpedia

Public sources(e-shops, catalogs)

CrowdsourcingCrawling

Current version

Accessible on http://foodpedia.tk

SPARQL endpoint: http://foodpedia.tk/sparql

Statistics:

❏ number of food products: ~ 9 300❏ number of triples: ~ 81 000

And more than 60 000 food products will be added soon.

Plans

❏ a (semi-)automated extraction of new triples from known sources and update of existing triples;

❏ a (semi-)automated extraction and normalisation of names of the ingredients;

❏ continue developing the food product ontology;❏ mapping of food products to a food category system, such as the Codex

GSFA’s food category.❏ interlinking with other datasets, such as DBpedia, Open Food Facts;❏ a tool for open collaborative editing of the dataset;❏ support of multilingual at knowledge base and interface level.

Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference 2014, Kazan, Russia

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