A Use Case of Data Integration in Food Production

This paper presents a use case about knowledge representation and integration of data from different domains in food science. An ontology named PODG, the Process and Observation Ontology for the production of Dairy Gels, has been designed in order to provide a shared vocabulary for domain experts. The available data have been semantically structured using PODG and are stored in an RDF repository named PODG dataset. This use case identifies some of the challenges when dealing with a multi domain representation problem, gives some hints about possible solutions and suggests some further work.