Terms related to Project

Grammar

An ontology is a set of statements in the logical form: subject predicate object where subject and object are facet terms.

Python

Application programming language used to build several Ontomatica services. Python is the main scripting language used at Google.

Prototype

Baseline for specifying USDA Complete System requirements using existing Ontomatica capabilities.

Severity Level 1

Bug or issue affects a crucial part of complete system, and must be fixed in order for it to resume normal operation.

Severity Level 3

Bug or issue affects a minor part of complete system, and has very little impact on its operation. This severity level is assigned when a non-central requirement of a system (and with lower importance) is affected.

Severity Level 2

Bug or issue affects a minor part of complete system, but has some impact on its operation. This severity level is assigned when a non-central requirement of a system is affected.

Graph

Composed of vertices (nodes) and lines (edges) that connect them. Ontomatica graphs are directed acyclic graphs that represent things or events, and causal relationships between them.

Ilustration

Depicts how a concept works. Illustration (illo) may be a Figure (image or SVG file); a Table; or, a Graph (directed acyclic graph).

Parser

Deposition service that reads food record from GS1 data stream. Using a lexical analyzer and regular expression, parser matches tokens from data stream to ontology terms. Parser output is used to update graphs and build a new application instance for quality assurance.

OnTop

Deposition service to parse inputs and generate outputs.

Landing Page

Displays all facets and data properties for a specific Item.

Listing Page

Displays items that share facets and predicates.

Item

Food record in electronic format.

Depositor

Food supplier that submits information about food items to label project.

Modified Specification

Functional changes and additions to prototype to fulfill specifications for complete system.

Infrastructure Service

Hardware and software to execute and manage all services.

Class

Hierarchy of facet terms and/or predicate terms.

Taxonomy

Hierarchy of facets in a specific knowledge domain. Base of taxonomy is called a facet. Term in hierarchy is called facet term (FT). Code assigned to facet term is called facet term code (FTC). Taxonomy does not include predicates, formal classes, expressions or axioms.

End User

Individual consumer who accesses complete system information with respect to food purchasing decisions.

User

Individual who accesses complete system.

Data Service

Information stored in and presented from REST services and MySQL database to implement label project features.

Complete System

Integration of application, deposition, data, infrastructure and operation services to implement label project specifications.

Future Feature

Label class not in complete system. Example: integration with Linked Data.

Creative Commons CC 0

Licenses that allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. See http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Creative Commons BY 4.0

Licenses that allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Relationship

Line (edge) expressing connection between facets and facet terms in a graph. Logically, a relationship is a verb.

Data

Literals (numbers and letters).

Navigation

Map applications, such as Google Maps, display points-of-interest when a user selects and navigates different routes to a destination. For label project, landscape is represented as graphs (rather than maps) and a user navigates facets and predicates to display foods-of-interest.

Label Project

Name of USDA project to deliver branded food label information from a web server.

Application Service

Navigator, label classes, and related services to implement label project features.

Navigator

Ontomatica application that traverses graphs and enables a user to view one or more facets in a taxonomy. As of 2014, Navigator’s ability to generate a multi-facet listing page is unique in technology marketplace.

OnTarget

Ontomatica collection of development services tools.

OnCall

Ontomatica customer services.

OnDemand

Ontomatica Infrastructure, data and operating services.

OntoLogics

Ontomatica process of defining graphs and related services such as classes, predicates and data.

Deposition Service

Ontomatica service for registering research and related data in a structured format for integration with other data deposits.

OnLine

Ontomatica web-based deposition system.

Food Compiler

Person who analyzes food data, calculates representative data, acquires related data from other sources, estmates value of data from similar foods, and calculates multi-ingredient food values

Development

Process of adding or changing facets, predicates and items to prototype or complete system.

OntoMation

Process of managing Development, Quality Assurance and Production.

Quality Assurance

Process when Development version is evaluated and tested by specific professionals or users.

Production

Process when Quality Assurance version is promoted to public access.

Metadata

Same as terms in taxonomy.

Label Class

Set of facets and predicates required to implement USDA label project.

Ontology

Set of statements about a domain of knowledge. Statements in Ontomatica ontologies are implemented as graphs.

Fail-over

Switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network.

Conversation

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Deposition Workflow

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Depository

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Development Service

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Food Composition Data

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Food Identity

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Food Non-Composition Data

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Food Supplier

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Github

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Intel Xeon Server

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Investigator

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LAMP

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Level 1 Support

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Level 2 Support

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lex ++

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Maintenance Service

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make ++

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Message Deposit

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Migration

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MySQL

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OnPoint

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Operating Service

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Release 0

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Release 1

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Release 2

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Release 3

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REST

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Service Level Agreement

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Sphinx

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Support Service

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Trade Secret

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Training Service

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USDA NDL FSRG Practice

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USDA Prime

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USDA Select

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Web Deposit

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Scope Notes

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Additional Information

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JSON-LD

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OnTask

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Constituent

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Component

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Regular Expression

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make++

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Version Control

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Concept

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Work flow

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Predicate

Type (single) or hierarchy (class) of relationship. Type or class term is called predicate term. Code assigned to predicate term (PT) is called predicate term code (PTC).

USDA Mathematics

USDA algorithm - integrated with deposition services - that assigns new data values during parser operation. Data values are numbers for chemical methods and chemical terms otherwise not available from depositor.

Curator

USDA professional who manages item life-cycle. Item life-cycle has five dates: (1) creation; (2) deposition; (3) hold; (4) modification; and, (5) deprecation. See Data Services for detail.

Facet

Vertex (node) in a graph. Logically, a facet is a noun. Type or class term is called facet term. Code assigned to facet term (FT) is called facet term code (FTC).

Vocal

Vocal (acronym for Latin phrase “Vocabularium Alimentarum” – Vocabulary of Food) is a controlled vocabulary of food. Vocal is organized as a taxonomy.

Authority

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OnMessage

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Deposit

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Pre-combined item

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Deposition

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jointWith

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disjointWith

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Proximate

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Fraction

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Carbohydrate

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Fatty Acid

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Fat

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Carotenoid

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Factor

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Vitamin A

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Refuse Value

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Household Measure

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Retention Value

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Cooking Method

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INFOODS

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Term

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Web Service

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Jurisdiction

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Facet Map

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