Stphane Gigandet, founderhttp://openfoodfacts.org
Computer Cooking Contest 2012 - Lyon Sept. 3rd 2012
Freie Datenbank fr Nahrungsmittel
La informacin alimentaria libre
La banca dati alimentare aperta
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L'information alimentaire ouverte
Agenda
Introduction
Collaborating and contributing
Uses
Re-uses
Technology
Future plans
Impact
The Open Food Facts project
A database of information on food products from all around the
worldIngredients, nutrition facts, origins, labels, photos etc.
Collaborative, free and open
Collaborating and contributing
Crowdsourcing model to add products150 contributors added 2000
products in French
Contributions directly from food companies
Crowdsourcing of ideasFacebook contributors groups, discussion
lists etc.
40 ideas on the Ideas
Forumshttps://openfoodfactsfr.uservoice.com/ &
http://openfoodfacts.uservoice.com/
Open APIs and open source mobile
apphttps://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-android/
Mailing list: [email protected]
Missions and special operations
Operation Soda:- collaboration with OWNI andTerra Eco
- 150 sodas added in 1 week
Uses Deciphering cryptic labels
e.g. E-numbers for additivesE150d = Sulfite ammonia caramel
Carmine, also called Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4,
E120 or carminic acid
Elevage de Cochenilles aux Iles CanariesPhoto par Frank
Vincentz, licence Creative Commons paternit partage lidentique
3.0Cochineal scales breeding
Photo by Frank Vincentz, licence Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
Uses Comparing products
Products in the same category:
Uses Fact checking
Campbell's 25% Less Sodium Tomato Soup
Source:
http://www.mouseprint.org/2010/03/08/campbells-not-25-less-sodium-tomato-soup/
$1 $1.39
Same amount of salt!
Uses Searching products
Re-uses allowed and encouraged
Open Data licence (OdbL)cc-by-sa like licence for databases
Anyone can use all the collected data for any use (including
commercial)
Data readily available in open formatsJSON API, CSV exports
Re-uses : data visualizations
Graphs are now directly available through the Search form on
Open Food Facts
Re-use ideas
Source of data for research: food, health, marketing, computer
science etc.
Consumer watch
Art, collections
Your ideas!
Got an idea? We can help to get the data you need. (e.g. more
products with Aspartame for a study)
Technology
Web frontend: HTML5, jquery
Server backend: Apache, Perl, MongoDB
Mobile apps: Phonegap, jquerymobile
OCR (ingredients): Tesseract
Innovative use of common technologies
Cameras: products instead of sunsets
Phones: barcode readers
Barcodes: consumers instead of cashiers
Future plans
More languages, more products
Mobile apps: Android, iOS, Windows Phone etc.
More uses and re-usese.g. automated ingredients translation for
people traveling in foreign countries
More collaboration and researchScientists, developers,
students
e.g. better OCR: ingredients on round cans?
Changing how we eat and cook
More transparency to the food industry means:Smarter choices
Better products (healthy, environment friendly)
Less processed food products
More cooking!
9 additives:E331,E333,E330,E440,E415E322,E503,E450,E500
http://www.lacuisinedejuliat.com/article-moelleux-biscuits-fraises-et-rhubarbe-109485909.html
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