Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Sep 30, 2021
Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.4 Authentication and authorisation infrastructure This project h... more Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.4 Authentication and authorisation infrastructure This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Aug 4, 2021
Updated deliverable as per experts request for revision Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.3 Integr... more Updated deliverable as per experts request for revision Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.3 Integration of general document and (meta)data repositories This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059.
13th International Food data Conference, 14. - 18. October 2019, Lissabon, Portugal: Challenges for Food Databases in the Bioinformatics Era : Programme and Book of Abstract, Oct 1, 2019
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 31, 2021
Appendix I. List of EOSC Projects 7.2 Appendix II. SDG's and their specific targets applicable to... more Appendix I. List of EOSC Projects 7.2 Appendix II. SDG's and their specific targets applicable to FNS-Cloud Food Nutrition Security Cloud D8.1 FNS-Cloud Charter This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059. 5 This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059. 24 5 FNS-Cloud Charter We propose to be adopted by FNS-Cloud General Assembly the following Charter.
Food, nutrition, and health are linked, and detailed knowledge of nutrient compositions and bioac... more Food, nutrition, and health are linked, and detailed knowledge of nutrient compositions and bioactive characteristics is needed to understand these relationships. Additionally, increasingly these data are required by database systems and applications. This communication aims to describe the contribution to databases and nutrition fields as well as the activities of EuroFIR AISBL; this member-based, non-profit association was founded to ensure sustained advocacy for food information in Europe and facilitate improved data quality, storage, and access as well as encouraging wider exploitation of food composition data for both research and commercial purposes. In addition to the description of its role and main objectives, a snapshot of EuroFIR AISBL’s activities over the years is also given using a quantitative research literature analysis approach. The focus of this communication is to provide descriptions and updates of EuroFIR’s online tools, i.e., FoodEXplorer, eBASIS, and PlantLIB...
Non-communicable diseases are on the rise and are often related to food choices; nutrition affect... more Non-communicable diseases are on the rise and are often related to food choices; nutrition affects infectious diseases too. Therefore, there is growing interest in research on public and personal health, as related to food, nutrition behaviour and well-being of consumers throughout the life cycle. These concepts and their relations are complex and only partially understood – more data is needed to improve our understanding. The required data include deep geno- and phenotyping data from human nutritional studies, covering metabolic and health, but also including behavioural and socio-economic data. The aim of this white paper is to provide a guiding framework for the future contributions of ELIXIR’s recently established Food & Nutrition (F&N) Community. This white paper is the direct result of a strategy meeting that took place in September 2019 in The Hague (NL) and involved representatives of 14 countries representing the ELIXIR Nodes. The meeting led to the definition of F&N relat...
In recent years, the digital revolution has involved the agrifood sector. However, the use of the... more In recent years, the digital revolution has involved the agrifood sector. However, the use of the most recent technologies is still limited due to poor data management. The integration, organisation and optimised use of smart data provides the basis for intelligent systems, services, solutions and applications for food chain management. With the purpose of integrating data on food quality, safety, traceability, transparency and authenticity, an EOSC-compatible (European Open Science Cloud) traceability search engine concept for data standardisation, interoperability, knowledge extraction, and data reuse, was developed within the framework of the FNS-Cloud project (GA No. 863059). For the developed model, three specific food supply chains were examined (olive oil, milk, and fishery products) in order to collect, integrate, organise and make available data relating to each step of each chain. For every step of each chain, parameters of interest and parameters of influence—related to n...
2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2019
This position paper describes the METROFOODRI research infrastructure, which has been included in... more This position paper describes the METROFOODRI research infrastructure, which has been included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2018 in the domain Health and Food, with a focus on its electronic component. The Strategy Working Group and the Implementation Group in their evaluations clearly stated that the project fills a gap in the Health & Food domain and sufficiently mature to proceed with its implementation. One of the main tasks of the project is to integrate physical and electronic infrastructure based on FAIR data principles.
Data quality is a critical factor in scientific information systems, especially taking into accou... more Data quality is a critical factor in scientific information systems, especially taking into account the fact that the methods used to capture data are constantly being revised and improved which means that data collected over time may have variable quality. We present an approach that we implemented for giving feedback on data quality and report on a study of its use in the food sciences. We distinguish between two main types of data quality feedback, one concerning the validation of data at input time and the other with analysing the quality of data already stored in a database. We propose a general data quality framework and analysis toolkit that allows users to configure both the data quality metrics and how these metrics are visualised. We describe how the toolkit was integrated into a system for the management of food composition data before presenting the results of a questionnaire-based study used to evaluate both the data quality framework and how feedback on data quality is...
Data quality is a critical issue in scientific databases since the reliability of empirical data ... more Data quality is a critical issue in scientific databases since the reliability of empirical data can have a major impact on the formation of scientific theories and policy decisions. Yet while several conceptual frameworks for data quality have been proposed, there is still a lack of general tools and metrics to measure and control the quality of empirical data in practice. As a first step in this direction, we carried out a detailed study of data quality requirements in a system designed to support food scientists by managing data about food composition. Our users included system designers and developers as well as food compilers and project managers. In addition to determining which dimensions of data quality specified in existing conceptual frameworks users consider important in assessing the reliability of data, we also asked users to assess the importance of various criteria related specifically to empirical data. These factors were based around the four steps typical in the li...
3rd IMEKOFOODS Conference: Metrology Promoting Harmonization and Standardization in Food and Nutr... more 3rd IMEKOFOODS Conference: Metrology Promoting Harmonization and Standardization in Food and Nutrition
Henrietta Ene-Obong*, Hettie C. Schönfeldt , Ella Campaore, Angela Kimani, Rosemary Mwaisaka, Ann... more Henrietta Ene-Obong*, Hettie C. Schönfeldt , Ella Campaore, Angela Kimani, Rosemary Mwaisaka, Anna Vincent, Jalila El Ati, Pascal Kouebou, Karl Presser, Paul Finglas and U. Ruth Charrondiere Department of Biochemistry (Human Nutrition & Dietetics Unit), University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa University of Ouaga/Ministry of Health, Ougadogu, Burkina Faso UN-FAO, Nairobi, Kenya Food Security and Nutrition, ECSA-Health Community, Arusha, Tanzania Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation, Rome, Italy Institut National de Nutrition et de Technologie Alimentaire, Tunis, Tunisie Programme Technologie Alimentaire et Post-Recolte, Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Development, Yaounde, Cameroon Premotec GmbH, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Food Databanks National Capability, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UA, UK INFOODS Coordinator, Regional Office for Latin Ame...
METROFOOD-RI (www.metrofood.eu) is an ESFRI research infrastructure, funded upon the EU H2020 MET... more METROFOOD-RI (www.metrofood.eu) is an ESFRI research infrastructure, funded upon the EU H2020 METROFOOD-PP project for its Preparatory Phase, aiming to establish a new distributed European Research Infrastructure (RI) to promote scientific excellence and increase efficiency in food quality and food safety. It strives to provide and coordinate high-level metrological services on a European scale for researchers, laboratories, food inspection agencies and&nbsp;policymakers. As part of the preparatory phase towards the legal statute of ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium), a service portfolio is being set up along with its provision diagram. As a test for this model of service provision, three use cases have been defined that are representative of the different types of access that will be provided by METROFOOD-RI: physical access to a food pilot plant for demonstrating technical solutions and adaptations of food processing technology to minimize acrylamide in bakery products at the National Research &amp; Development Institute for Food Bio-resources (IBA,&nbsp;Romania). remote access to the transmission electron microscope facility for physicochemical characterization of nanoparticles in food (Sciensano,&nbsp;Belgium). virtual access to two e-services for open data use, mainly addressed to researchers, laboratories, food inspection agencies and policy&nbsp;makers: a search engine and database for agrifood reference materials and official&nbsp;methods an application programming interface (API) for a risk evaluation&nbsp;tool The use cases will help to evaluate the usability of the single access point of the research infrastructure and to fine-tune the access procedures and interfaces with users. This will support the elaboration of the final service chart of METROFOOD-RI including all the potential physical, electronical and integrated services that the infrastructure aims to provide to its&nbsp;users. The paper will give an overview and first evaluation of the use case service provision and provide an overview of the potential METROFOOD-RI service&nbsp;portfolio.</p
Abstract Documentation of all information concerning foods, components, values and references is ... more Abstract Documentation of all information concerning foods, components, values and references is essential to maintain a food composition database. To users, it provides information on origin and quality of the data. Nevertheless, recent evaluation of value documentation of macronutrients according to the EuroFIR Standard in 26 European food composition datasets showed inconsistencies. The documentation of aggregated (calculated from initial values) and compiled (created within the database to complete missing data) values was not fully comparable, since different thesauri terms were used in different countries for similar situations. In this light, it was recognized that automated value documentation linked to automated procedures to calculate values from means, recipes and formulae could contribute to better harmonisation between databases. A working group thus developed guidelines for default value documentation of aggregated/compiled values, using the current EuroFIR Standard and thesauri. Options for aggregation/compilation in the FoodCASE data management system were taken as starting point. The guidelines were implemented in the FoodCASE software (version 5.5.0), resulting in automated and harmonized value documentation for aggregated/compiled values when using FoodCASE. Default documentation can also be implemented in other software. Applying this default for harmonized documentation of aggregated/compiled values will assist compilers and increase transparency and comparability of (European) food composition data.
Despite the rich biodiversity of the African continent and the tremendous progress so far made in... more Despite the rich biodiversity of the African continent and the tremendous progress so far made in food production, Africa is still struggling with the problems of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition. To combat these problems, the production and consumption of nutritious and safe foods need to be promoted. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on the quantity and quality of nutrients and other components provided through these foods. Food composition data (FCD) are compiled as food composition tables (FCT) or food composition databases (FCDB). These are subsequently used for a variety of purposes, ranging from clinical practice, research, public health/education, food industry to planning and policy, as well as nutrition monitoring and surveillance. To perform these functions effectively, the importance of reliable FCT/FCDB cannot be overemphasised. Poor quality FCT/FCDB have serious consequences on the health of the population, and provide skew evidence towards developi...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Sep 30, 2021
Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.4 Authentication and authorisation infrastructure This project h... more Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.4 Authentication and authorisation infrastructure This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Aug 4, 2021
Updated deliverable as per experts request for revision Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.3 Integr... more Updated deliverable as per experts request for revision Food Nutrition Security Cloud D2.3 Integration of general document and (meta)data repositories This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059.
13th International Food data Conference, 14. - 18. October 2019, Lissabon, Portugal: Challenges for Food Databases in the Bioinformatics Era : Programme and Book of Abstract, Oct 1, 2019
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 31, 2021
Appendix I. List of EOSC Projects 7.2 Appendix II. SDG's and their specific targets applicable to... more Appendix I. List of EOSC Projects 7.2 Appendix II. SDG's and their specific targets applicable to FNS-Cloud Food Nutrition Security Cloud D8.1 FNS-Cloud Charter This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059. 5 This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863059. 24 5 FNS-Cloud Charter We propose to be adopted by FNS-Cloud General Assembly the following Charter.
Food, nutrition, and health are linked, and detailed knowledge of nutrient compositions and bioac... more Food, nutrition, and health are linked, and detailed knowledge of nutrient compositions and bioactive characteristics is needed to understand these relationships. Additionally, increasingly these data are required by database systems and applications. This communication aims to describe the contribution to databases and nutrition fields as well as the activities of EuroFIR AISBL; this member-based, non-profit association was founded to ensure sustained advocacy for food information in Europe and facilitate improved data quality, storage, and access as well as encouraging wider exploitation of food composition data for both research and commercial purposes. In addition to the description of its role and main objectives, a snapshot of EuroFIR AISBL’s activities over the years is also given using a quantitative research literature analysis approach. The focus of this communication is to provide descriptions and updates of EuroFIR’s online tools, i.e., FoodEXplorer, eBASIS, and PlantLIB...
Non-communicable diseases are on the rise and are often related to food choices; nutrition affect... more Non-communicable diseases are on the rise and are often related to food choices; nutrition affects infectious diseases too. Therefore, there is growing interest in research on public and personal health, as related to food, nutrition behaviour and well-being of consumers throughout the life cycle. These concepts and their relations are complex and only partially understood – more data is needed to improve our understanding. The required data include deep geno- and phenotyping data from human nutritional studies, covering metabolic and health, but also including behavioural and socio-economic data. The aim of this white paper is to provide a guiding framework for the future contributions of ELIXIR’s recently established Food & Nutrition (F&N) Community. This white paper is the direct result of a strategy meeting that took place in September 2019 in The Hague (NL) and involved representatives of 14 countries representing the ELIXIR Nodes. The meeting led to the definition of F&N relat...
In recent years, the digital revolution has involved the agrifood sector. However, the use of the... more In recent years, the digital revolution has involved the agrifood sector. However, the use of the most recent technologies is still limited due to poor data management. The integration, organisation and optimised use of smart data provides the basis for intelligent systems, services, solutions and applications for food chain management. With the purpose of integrating data on food quality, safety, traceability, transparency and authenticity, an EOSC-compatible (European Open Science Cloud) traceability search engine concept for data standardisation, interoperability, knowledge extraction, and data reuse, was developed within the framework of the FNS-Cloud project (GA No. 863059). For the developed model, three specific food supply chains were examined (olive oil, milk, and fishery products) in order to collect, integrate, organise and make available data relating to each step of each chain. For every step of each chain, parameters of interest and parameters of influence—related to n...
2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2019
This position paper describes the METROFOODRI research infrastructure, which has been included in... more This position paper describes the METROFOODRI research infrastructure, which has been included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2018 in the domain Health and Food, with a focus on its electronic component. The Strategy Working Group and the Implementation Group in their evaluations clearly stated that the project fills a gap in the Health & Food domain and sufficiently mature to proceed with its implementation. One of the main tasks of the project is to integrate physical and electronic infrastructure based on FAIR data principles.
Data quality is a critical factor in scientific information systems, especially taking into accou... more Data quality is a critical factor in scientific information systems, especially taking into account the fact that the methods used to capture data are constantly being revised and improved which means that data collected over time may have variable quality. We present an approach that we implemented for giving feedback on data quality and report on a study of its use in the food sciences. We distinguish between two main types of data quality feedback, one concerning the validation of data at input time and the other with analysing the quality of data already stored in a database. We propose a general data quality framework and analysis toolkit that allows users to configure both the data quality metrics and how these metrics are visualised. We describe how the toolkit was integrated into a system for the management of food composition data before presenting the results of a questionnaire-based study used to evaluate both the data quality framework and how feedback on data quality is...
Data quality is a critical issue in scientific databases since the reliability of empirical data ... more Data quality is a critical issue in scientific databases since the reliability of empirical data can have a major impact on the formation of scientific theories and policy decisions. Yet while several conceptual frameworks for data quality have been proposed, there is still a lack of general tools and metrics to measure and control the quality of empirical data in practice. As a first step in this direction, we carried out a detailed study of data quality requirements in a system designed to support food scientists by managing data about food composition. Our users included system designers and developers as well as food compilers and project managers. In addition to determining which dimensions of data quality specified in existing conceptual frameworks users consider important in assessing the reliability of data, we also asked users to assess the importance of various criteria related specifically to empirical data. These factors were based around the four steps typical in the li...
3rd IMEKOFOODS Conference: Metrology Promoting Harmonization and Standardization in Food and Nutr... more 3rd IMEKOFOODS Conference: Metrology Promoting Harmonization and Standardization in Food and Nutrition
Henrietta Ene-Obong*, Hettie C. Schönfeldt , Ella Campaore, Angela Kimani, Rosemary Mwaisaka, Ann... more Henrietta Ene-Obong*, Hettie C. Schönfeldt , Ella Campaore, Angela Kimani, Rosemary Mwaisaka, Anna Vincent, Jalila El Ati, Pascal Kouebou, Karl Presser, Paul Finglas and U. Ruth Charrondiere Department of Biochemistry (Human Nutrition & Dietetics Unit), University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa University of Ouaga/Ministry of Health, Ougadogu, Burkina Faso UN-FAO, Nairobi, Kenya Food Security and Nutrition, ECSA-Health Community, Arusha, Tanzania Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation, Rome, Italy Institut National de Nutrition et de Technologie Alimentaire, Tunis, Tunisie Programme Technologie Alimentaire et Post-Recolte, Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Development, Yaounde, Cameroon Premotec GmbH, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Food Databanks National Capability, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UA, UK INFOODS Coordinator, Regional Office for Latin Ame...
METROFOOD-RI (www.metrofood.eu) is an ESFRI research infrastructure, funded upon the EU H2020 MET... more METROFOOD-RI (www.metrofood.eu) is an ESFRI research infrastructure, funded upon the EU H2020 METROFOOD-PP project for its Preparatory Phase, aiming to establish a new distributed European Research Infrastructure (RI) to promote scientific excellence and increase efficiency in food quality and food safety. It strives to provide and coordinate high-level metrological services on a European scale for researchers, laboratories, food inspection agencies and&nbsp;policymakers. As part of the preparatory phase towards the legal statute of ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium), a service portfolio is being set up along with its provision diagram. As a test for this model of service provision, three use cases have been defined that are representative of the different types of access that will be provided by METROFOOD-RI: physical access to a food pilot plant for demonstrating technical solutions and adaptations of food processing technology to minimize acrylamide in bakery products at the National Research &amp; Development Institute for Food Bio-resources (IBA,&nbsp;Romania). remote access to the transmission electron microscope facility for physicochemical characterization of nanoparticles in food (Sciensano,&nbsp;Belgium). virtual access to two e-services for open data use, mainly addressed to researchers, laboratories, food inspection agencies and policy&nbsp;makers: a search engine and database for agrifood reference materials and official&nbsp;methods an application programming interface (API) for a risk evaluation&nbsp;tool The use cases will help to evaluate the usability of the single access point of the research infrastructure and to fine-tune the access procedures and interfaces with users. This will support the elaboration of the final service chart of METROFOOD-RI including all the potential physical, electronical and integrated services that the infrastructure aims to provide to its&nbsp;users. The paper will give an overview and first evaluation of the use case service provision and provide an overview of the potential METROFOOD-RI service&nbsp;portfolio.</p
Abstract Documentation of all information concerning foods, components, values and references is ... more Abstract Documentation of all information concerning foods, components, values and references is essential to maintain a food composition database. To users, it provides information on origin and quality of the data. Nevertheless, recent evaluation of value documentation of macronutrients according to the EuroFIR Standard in 26 European food composition datasets showed inconsistencies. The documentation of aggregated (calculated from initial values) and compiled (created within the database to complete missing data) values was not fully comparable, since different thesauri terms were used in different countries for similar situations. In this light, it was recognized that automated value documentation linked to automated procedures to calculate values from means, recipes and formulae could contribute to better harmonisation between databases. A working group thus developed guidelines for default value documentation of aggregated/compiled values, using the current EuroFIR Standard and thesauri. Options for aggregation/compilation in the FoodCASE data management system were taken as starting point. The guidelines were implemented in the FoodCASE software (version 5.5.0), resulting in automated and harmonized value documentation for aggregated/compiled values when using FoodCASE. Default documentation can also be implemented in other software. Applying this default for harmonized documentation of aggregated/compiled values will assist compilers and increase transparency and comparability of (European) food composition data.
Despite the rich biodiversity of the African continent and the tremendous progress so far made in... more Despite the rich biodiversity of the African continent and the tremendous progress so far made in food production, Africa is still struggling with the problems of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition. To combat these problems, the production and consumption of nutritious and safe foods need to be promoted. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on the quantity and quality of nutrients and other components provided through these foods. Food composition data (FCD) are compiled as food composition tables (FCT) or food composition databases (FCDB). These are subsequently used for a variety of purposes, ranging from clinical practice, research, public health/education, food industry to planning and policy, as well as nutrition monitoring and surveillance. To perform these functions effectively, the importance of reliable FCT/FCDB cannot be overemphasised. Poor quality FCT/FCDB have serious consequences on the health of the population, and provide skew evidence towards developi...
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