OBO Foundry Food Ontology Interconnectivity

Liliana Andrés-Hernández Liliana.AndresHernandez@scu.edu.au landreshdz@gmail.com Georgeta Bordea georgeta.bordea@u-bordeaux.fr Leigh Carmody Leigh.Carmody@jax.org Duccio Cavalieri duccio.cavalieri@unifi.it Lauren Chan chanl@oregonstate.edu Pol Castellano-Escuder polcaes@gmail.com Carl Lachat Carl.Lachat@UGent.be Fleur Mougin fleur.mougin@u-bordeaux.fr Francesco Vitali francesco.vitali@ibba.cnr.it Chen Yang chenyangnutrition@gmail.com Magalie Weber magalie.weber@inrae.fr Hande Kucuk McGinty handekucukmcginty@gmail.com Matthew Lange matthew@ic-foods.org Since its creation in 2016, the FoodOn food ontology has become an interconnected partner in various academic and government projects that span agricultural and public health domains. This paper examines recent data interoperability capabilities arising from food-related ontologies belonging to, or compatible with, the encyclopedic Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry (OBO) ontology platform, and how research organizations and industry might utilize them for their own projects or for data exchange. Projects are seeking standardized vocabulary across many food supply activities ranging from agricultural production, harvesting, preparation, food processing, marketing, distribution and consumption, as well as more indirect health, economic, food security and sustainability analysis and reporting tools. To satisfy this demand for controlled vocabulary requires establishing domain specific ontologies whose curators coordinate closely to produce recommended patterns for food system vocabulary.