Title: Food industry information exchange and the role of meta-data and data lists

Authors: Kathryn Anne-Marie Donnelly; Joop Van Der Roest; Stefán Torfi Höskuldsson; Kine Mari Karlsen; Petter Olsen

Addresses: Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima), Muninbakken 9-13, Breivika, Norway ' RIKILT – Wageningen UR, RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety, Akkermaalsbos 2, P.O. Box 30, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands ' Maritech ehf, Borgartún 25, 105, Reykjavik, Iceland ' Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima), Muninbakken 9-13, Breivika, Norway ' Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima), Muninbakken 9-13, Breivika, Norway

Abstract: To improve electronic communication between companies, universal standardised data lists are necessary. Food supply chain companies already record numerous measurements, properties and data elements. These records are necessary for legal reasons, labelling, traceability, profiling desirable characteristics, showing compliance and for meeting customer requirements. Universal standards for the name and content of each of these data elements would improve information exchange. Adequate provision of standardised data lists would also enable greater use of metadata and semantic technologies. A case study, carried out for the chicken sector, attempted to identify the most relevant data elements.

Keywords: data standards; chicken processing; data elements; traceability; ontology; information exchange; metadata; standardised data lists; food supply chains; supply chain management; SCM; semantics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2011.046596

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2011 Vol.6 No.2, pp.146 - 153

Published online: 12 Feb 2015 *

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