Cost Action 99 - Publications

Data Management and Interchange

Schlotke F., Becker W., Ireland J., Møller A., Ovaskainen M.L., Monspart J., Unwin I. (Eds.):

COST Action 99 - Eurofoods recommendations for food composition database management and data interchange

The EU COST Action 99 – EUROFOODS “Food Consumption and Food Composition Data” is a research project sponsored by COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research). It started in 1995 and ended in 1999. Within this framework a special working group addresses issues of food composition data management and interchange. The main objective of this working group is to promote and encourage interchange of food composition data within Europe. To achieve this goal, the working group proposes a set of recommendations for food composition data interchange using electronic media. The recommendations are firmly founded on previous work done internationally by INFOODS and by national agencies and institutes as well as international standards. The recommendations include the description of food, component, value and data source. The intention has been to create a food composition data interchange model that is sufficiently generic to handle food composition data at the various levels of aggregation and with various levels of additional descriptive information. The recommendations also include technical issues such as file formats. Recent developments of software tools to support the recommendations are briefly described.

Report No. EUR 19538, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000 (79 pp.), ISBN 92-828-9757-5. Price EUR 11.50.

 

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LanguaL Food Description

LanguaL stands for "Langua aLimentaria” or “language of food". It is an automated method for describing, capturing and retrieving data about food. The work on LanguaL was started in the late 1970’s by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an ongoing co-operative effort of specialists in food technology, information science and nutrition. Since then, LanguaL has been developed in collaboration with the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), and, more recently, its European partners, notably in France, Denmark, Switzerland and Hungary. Since 1996, the European LanguaL Technical Committee has administered the thesaurus.

 

Møller A., Ireland J.:

LanguaL 2000 – The LanguaL thesaurus.

This report presents the details of the present version, LanguaL 2000 Thesaurus, according to international thesaurus standards, an alphabetical display of descriptors and synonyms (non-descriptors) as well as the systematic display of the thesaurus hierarchy.

Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature, Report No. EUR 19540, European Commission, 2000.

 

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Møller A., Ireland J.:

LanguaL 2000 – Introduction to the LanguaL thesaurus.

This report presents the basics of the LanguaL 2000 Thesaurus with an explanation of the structure as well as for each facet of the thesaurus the rules and use in indexing.

Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature, Report No. EUR 19542, European Commission, 2000.

 

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Møller A., Ireland J.:

LanguaL 2000 - Documentation of changes from Version 0.

This report presents the documentation of the changes and additions from the previous version of LanguaL, version 0 (1995) to the present version of the LanguaL 2000 Thesaurus.

Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature, Report No. EUR 19541, European Commission, 2000.

 

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