Towards harmonized data interchange in food consumption data

  • Authors:

  • H. Pakkala;T. Christensen;K. Presser;I. Martínez De Victoria

  • Affiliations:

  • Division of Welfare and Health Promotion, Department of Lifestyle and Participation, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), P.O. Box 30, FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland;Institute of Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 6, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland;National Food Institute, Division of Nutrition, Technical University of Denmark, Mørkhøj Bygade 19, DK-2860 Søborg, Denmark;University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Food consumption data are collected and used in several fields of science. The data are often combined from various sources and interchanged between different systems. There is, however, no harmonized and widely used data interchange format. In addition, food consumption data are often combined with other data such as food composition data. In the field of food composition, successful harmonization has recently been achieved by the European Food Information Resource Network, which is now the basis of a standard draft by the European Committee for Standardization. We present an XML-based data interchange format for food consumption based on work and experiences related to food composition. The aim is that the data interchange format will provide a basis for wider harmonization in the future.