LanguaL Thesaurus - International Framework for Food Description

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Originally created in synergy by several organizations (among the original members of the International LanguaL Steering Committee were FDA, USDA, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO)), it is now maintained by Danish Food Informatics.
It’s a broad thesaurus for describing, capturing and retrieving data about food.
In particular, it includes sub-classifications from different EU, US and international classification systems (like CIAA, Eurocode2, USDA, Codex Alimentarius).
LanguaL facilitates links to many different food data banks and contributes to coherent data exchange. In total, more than 40000 European, North American foods and foods from other countries are now LanguaL indexed.

Form

Core information

URL(s):

http://www.langual.org/

Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):

United States Food and Drug Administration, Danish Food Informatics

Domain(s):

Food and Human Nutrition

Type of standard:

Thesaurus

Describes / models / annotates:

Research and agronomic data, Food nutrients, Food product data, Food research data, Value chain data, Socio-economic data, Food consumption / dietary surveys, Demographic and social statistics

Segment of the value chain:

Production

Processing

Additional information

Contact email:

j.ireland@dg.afssa.fr

Publication year:

2008

Technical information

Format of the data standard:

TSV, XML

Download / dump:

http://www.langual.org/xml/LanguaL2014.XML

VEST / AgroPortal integration

Original source:

VEST Registry

Assessment

An overview of criteria used for the assessment can be found here.

Total score:

1.00

assessment tabs

Fitness / adoption

Complete:

Not clear - N/A

Authoritative:

Not clear - N/A

Largely compatible:

Not clear - N/A

Known:

Not clear - N/A

Used in software:

Not clear - N/A

Used in datasets:

Not clear - N/A

Discoverable:

Not clear - N/A

Regulatory:

Not clear - N/A

Endorsed:

Not clear - N/A

Long-term, sustainable:

Not clear - N/A

Participatory, collaborative:

Not clear - N/A

Maintained:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg fitness:

1.00

Avg adoption:

1.00

Usability / openness

Available on the web:

Yes

Versatile:

Yes, 2-3 similar formats

Served by APIs:

Manageable:

Not clear - N/A

Documented:

Not clear - N/A

Supported:

Not clear - N/A

Testable:

Not clear - N/A

Machine-readable:

Yes

Meaningful:

Annotated:

Referenceable:

Linked:

Clearly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Openly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg usability:

1.29

Avg openness:

0.71

Notes on assessment:

First technical assessment (usability / openness) made by: FAO.

URI: https://vest.agrisemantics.org/node/18690

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