Report on basic ontology in food consumer science

Task 5.3 aims to develop and agree on ontologies in the food consumer science domain for search and knowledge representation. We will agree on tools for the ontology development and presentation, and publishing standards for the ontology. Second, we will define the domains for which the ontology will be developed. The next step is to investigate the applicability of already existing ontologies and develop ontology as far as no ontology exists, and link the ontology to existing ontologies, ongoing iterations to share and review knowledge is foreseen. Finally, we will publish the ontology according to the internally agreed publishing details. The ontology will include: (1) unambiguous definition of vocabulary (multilingual representation); (2) representation of knowledge (relations between entities); (3) Links to develop harmonised measures, available harmonised datasets and harmonised data models. This depends on sufficient availability and sufficient level of maturity of harmonised data models. In M1 the bidirectional interaction with task 5.2 starts, as in M7 the interaction with WP6 starts. The ontology will be used in task 7.2, task 7.3 and task 7.4.