EUROFOODS Recommendations for Food Composition Database Management and Data Interchange
✍ Scribed by Florian Schlotke; Wulf Becker; Jayne Ireland; Anders Møller; Marja-Leena Ovaskainen; Judit Monspart; Ian Unwin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 319 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0889-1575
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✦ Synopsis
To promote and encourage interchange of food composition data, the EUROFOODS working group on food composition data management and interchange proposes a set of recommendations for data management and interchange using electronic media. The recommendations are "rmly founded on previous work done internationally by INFOODS and by national agencies and institutes as well as international standards. The recommendations include guidelines for the description of foods, components, compositional values and data sources. A su$ciently generic conceptual schema for food composition is de"ned to handle food composition data at various levels of aggregation and with various levels of additional descriptive information. The recommendations also include technical issues such as "le formats and media for data interchange. Software tools are presented to assist with implementation of the recommendations.