Food Ontology

A simple vocabulary for describing recipes, ingredients, menus and diets.

Created Date	Date: 2014/03/18 16:30:00
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Introduction

The Food Ontology is a simple lightweight ontology for publishing data about recipes, including the foods they are made from and the foods they create as well as the diets, menus, seasons, courses and occasions they may be suitable for. Whilst it originates in a specific 成人快手 use case, the Food Ontology should be applicable to a wide range of recipe data publishing across the web.

The Food Ontology sits alongside existing work such as . While Google, and schema.org, provide a way to represent literal strings in a structured way the Food Ontology provides a richly linked model that more completely describes the recipe and its context. Food Ontology, microdata for recipes are all able to co-exist peacefully within the same site.

Example

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/menus/pork_belly_comfort_food_menu#menu> a fo:Menu ; 
   dcterms:description "We've put together a menu of easy, comforting recipes 
for a chilly winter's day."@en ;   
   dcterms:title "Pork belly comfort food menu"@en ;   
   fo:dessert <http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/banoffeepiewithpecan_86926#recipe>
   fo:ingredients <http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/menus/pork_belly_comfort_food_menu#ingredients> ;   
   fo:main_course <http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/roastbellyofporkwith_73882#recipe> ;
   fo:serves "6"@en ;   
   fo:side_dish <http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/champ_67444#recipe>, 
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/devilishredcabbage_8076#recipe> .

Ontology Diagram

Food ontology diagram

Ontology Terms

Automatically generated documentation for the ontology terms.

Classes

Collection
URI
Description	A Collection is a group of recipes that are brought together because they have something in common. Some collections may result from automated queries such as all recipes that share a particular ingredient, other collections may be the result of editorial selection.
Superclasses
Subclasses	Menu

Course
URI
Description	A Course is the sequence of a dish within a meal. For example a basic dinner party may consists of Starter, Main and Dessert courses.
Properties	serve_as

Cuisine
URI
Description	A Cuisine is a particular style of food, often based on a region. These classifications are often highly subjective.
Properties	cuisine

Diet
URI
Description	A Diet is a way of selecting food that achieves a particular effect, such as eating in way that is pregnancy-friendly or avoiding foods that contain shellfish.
Properties	diet

Food
URI
Description	A Food is something that can be eaten. It may be a basic food such as salt or it may be the more complex result of another recipe, for example chicken stock. A recipe uses foods as part of ingredients and also produces foods to be eaten.
Properties	at_its_best, food, produces, shopping_category

Ingredient
URI
Description	An Ingredient is the combination of a quantity and a food, giving the amount of something that should be used in the recipe.
Properties	food, imperial_quantity, metric_quantity, quantity

IngredientList
URI
Description	An IngredientList is a sequence (rdf:Seq) of ingredients in the order they should be listed in the recipe.
Superclasses
Properties	ingredients

Menu
URI
Description	A Menu is a collection of recipes, usually one or more per course, that have been selected to go well together. A Menu may also be related to a particular cuisine or occasion.
Superclasses	Collection
Properties	canape, dessert, main_course, side_dish, starter

Method
URI
Description	A Method is the way in which ingredients are combined, using particular techniques, in order to produce a food. A method is part of a recipe and is also an rdf:Seq.
Superclasses
Properties	method

Occasion
URI
Description	An Occasion is a recognised event or type of event that a particular food may be suitable for. An example of a particular occasion might be Chinese New Year, whereas a more general occasion might a birthday.
Properties	occasion

Recipe
URI
Description	A Recipe is a combination of ingredients and a method, created by a chef, that produces a food.
Properties	canape, cuisine, dessert, diet, main_course, occasion, produces, serve_as, serves, side_dish, stages, starter

Season
URI
Description	A Season is a period of time that recurs annually during which a food is typically available or at its best.
Properties	at_its_best

ShoppingCategory
URI
Description	A Shopping Category is a classification given to a food to indicate where it may be found when shopping.
Properties	shopping_category

Stage
URI
Description	A Stage is a part of a recipe that may have its own ingredient list and/or method. It allows the different parts of a multi-part recipe to be modelled separately, yet as part of the same recipe.

StageSequence
URI
Description	Where a recipe has a number of stage, for example where a recipe states 'for the sauce' a stage sequence provides a way to sequence the stages (rdf:Seq) into the desired order.
Superclasses
Properties	stages

Step
URI
Description	A Step is the lowest level of instruction used in a recipe. A sequence of steps form a method.
Properties	instruction

Technique
URI
Description	A Technique is a way of working with an ingredient to produce a desired effect, for example, whipping cream.
Properties	required_technique

Properties

at its best
URI
Description	The at its best property tells us in what season a particular food is at its best.
Domain	Food
Range	Season

canape
URI
Description	The canape property relates a menu to a recipe that may be served as a canape.
Domain	Menu
Range	Recipe

cuisine
URI
Description	The cuisine property classifies a recipe as being an example of that cuisine.
Domain	Recipe
Range	Cuisine

dessert
URI
Description	The dessert property relates a menu to a recipe that may be served as a dessert.
Domain	Menu
Range	Recipe

diet
URI
Description	The diet property relates a recipe to a diet it may be suitable for.
Domain	Recipe
Range	Diet

food
URI
Description	The food property relates an ingredient to the food that is required.
Domain	Ingredient
Range	Food

imperial quantity
URI
Description	A metric quantity provides a value and imperial unit in a human readable string for use in measuring out an ingredient.
Domain	Ingredient
Range

ingredients
URI
Description	The ingredients property relates a recipe or recipe stage to an ingredient list.
Range	IngredientList

instruction
URI
Description	An instruction provides the human-readable text associated with a step in the method for a recipe.
Domain	Step
Range

main course
URI
Description	The main course property relates a menu to a recipe that may be served as a main course.
Domain	Menu
Range	Recipe

method
URI
Description	The method property relates a recipe or stage to the method used to make it.
Range	Method

metric quantity
URI
Description	A metric quantity provides a value and metric unit in a human readable string for use in measuring out an ingredient.
Domain	Ingredient
Range

occasion
URI
Description	The occasion property relates a recipe to an occasion it may be appropriate for.
Domain	Recipe
Range	Occasion

produces
URI
Description	The produces property relates a recipe to the food it produces.
Domain	Recipe
Range	Food

quantity
URI
Description	A quantity provides a non-negative integer quantity that can be used as a measure of the food stuff for the ingredient.
Domain	Ingredient
Range

required technique
URI
Description	The required technique property indicates that a particular technique is required in order to complete a recipe, method or step.
Range	Technique

serve as
URI
Description	The serve as property relates a recipe to the course in a meal that it may be served as.
Domain	Recipe
Range	Course

serves
URI
Description	The server property indicates what the recipe is intended to serve, this is often a human readable integer range such as '6-8'.
Domain	Recipe
Range

shopping category
URI
Description	The shopping category property relates a food to the shopping category where that food is likely to be found when shopping for it.
Domain	Food
Range	ShoppingCategory

side dish
URI
Description	The side dish property relates a menu to a recipe that may be served as a side dish.
Domain	Menu
Range	Recipe

stages
URI
Description	The stages property relates a recipe to the sequence of stages it contains.
Domain	Recipe
Range	StageSequence

starter
URI
Description	The starter property relates a menu to a recipe that may be served as a starter.
Domain	Menu
Range	Recipe

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