Improving our food system through connected ontologies

Recently spun out of the University of California, and headquartered in Davis, California the
International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics (IC-FOODS)
collaborates with industry, academic, government, and NGO partners
around the world to build
the semantic platform for the Internet of Food (IoF).
We're creating standards, as well as technical and computational capabilities
on an
underlying data architecture of connected ontologies.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the ecosystem standards are to advance the burgeoning fields of Food Systems, Food, and Health Informatics.

We envision enabling the interconnection of platforms and IT ecosystems with
open and proprietary technologies
capable of supporting decision-making and automation,
as well as appropriate levels of traceability and transparency.

We seek to enable:
intelligent, precise, eco-friendly, and increasingly democratized and distributed
food growing, processing, and personalized recommendation systems
capable of improving our food system for increased sustainability, health, and delight of food.