Food process ontology requirements

People often value the sensual, celebratory, and health aspects of food, but behind this experience exists many other value-laden agricultural production, distribution, manufacturing, physiological processes that support or undermine a healthy population sustainable future. The complexity such is evident in both every-day food preparation recipes industrial packaging storage, each which depends critically on human machine agents, chemical organismal ingredient references, explicit instructions implicit procedures held formulations recipes. An integrated ontology landscape does not yet exist to cover all entities at work farm fork journey. It seems necessary construct vision by reusing expert-curated fit-to-purpose subdomains their relationship, material, more abstract organization role entities. challenge make merger be, analogy, one language, rather than nouns verbs from dozen dialects cannot be used directly statements about some aspect journey without expensive translation substantial dialect education order understand particular text domain knowledge. This focuses components – object data properties annotations needed model general process modelling within context Open Biological Biomedical Ontology Foundry congruent ontologies. Ideally these can brought together specialized only for carrying out protocols as well. Many operations involved identification, preparation, transportation storage shaking, boiling, mixing, freezing, labeling, shipping are actually common activities manufacturing laboratory local home preparation.