Difference between revisions of "Folksonomy Engine"

Latest revision as of 19:42, 22 September 2024

The goal of Folksonomy engine is to unleash an ocean of new usages regarding food knowledge. Folksonomy engine allows all kind of people — citizens, researchers, journalists, professionals, artists, communities, innovators... — to enrich and use Open Food Facts, thanks to free properties for your own use or to enrich the shared knowledge. Open Food Facts, as the biggest open-food database in the world, already feeds hundreds of data reuses. It will allow thousands of new apps and new usages.

Key dates and numbers

2021: project launched thanks to NlNet fund
2021-10: Folksonomy Engine API works
2021-11: Folksonomy Engine UI
2022-01: First beta, for moderators only
2024-09: Beta opened to all registered users
2024-09: Created a tutorial

Why it matters

For food products, it allows to create new kind of properties. Popular properties could join the official Open Food Facts model if they are often used.

For other products, Folksonomy Engine could be the base layer to create many different properties related to many different types of products. Eg. un smartphone have very different properties than a driller.

What we’ve done recently

2024: Fix small bugs.
2024-09: Opened to any registered users.
2024-09: Created a tutorial

What we are currently working on

2024-09: start to work on better documentation
2024-09: creating new properties for Open Products Facts

What’s coming up next

2024-09: new home page

How to get involved

Start to read this page.
Join #folksonomy-engine channel on Slack
Read the tutorial to get started

Delivered

An API to allow save/retry/modify property/value pairs for each product.
A user interface to for the end user, integrated to Open Food Facts.

People

Project owner: Charles Nepote; Lucas Huber at the beginning of the project
API dev: Christian Quest, then Alex Garel
Product Opener integration: Charles Nepote
With the help of: Stephane, Pierre, Alex, Aleene, Tacite, Jusdekiwi, Tacinte...

Documentation and communication

Short presentation (4 pages) [old documentation, to be modified]
Project document Wiki page. (This current document)

Other directories/documents (if any)

Main directory for presentation, description, documentation...

Code and bug tracking on Github:

Folksonomy Engine repo: this repository centralise issues and discussions dedicated to the whole project
Folksonomy Engine API repo
Folksonomy Engine frontend repo

Get in touch

Slack channel

#folksonomy_engine

Use cases

Health and food safety
Cooking and preparation
Grocery Apps
Product qualities
(Bad) Food Marketing
1. List properties of products targeting particular people
2. List properties of products related to consumers behavior

See, some use cases we are starting to investigate.

We also have investigated separately mobile use cases, as they allow very different kind of things.

How

As of today, Open Food Facts is made of a set of predefined properties (about 20 types of properties such as the product name, the product weight, the ingredients, the nutrients, etc.). Folksonomy engine is adding several kinds of new individual data properties to Open Food Facts or Open Products Facts. In fact, the scope of such new data properties is nearly endless, so we intend to get feedback from the community to define which one we should implement and how the user interface should look like.

Properties, or material facts, allows to specify a value or multiple values for the corresponding product.

Example: This product height is 35 cm, which ends up in a tag like [height = 35cm].

Sometimes a property can have multiple values:

Example: This product has to be recalled if produced on 2020-03-31, 2020-04-01, 2020-04-02. [Recall: if produced from 2020-03-31 - 2020-04-02]

Needs

More use cases to better understand how it will improve Open Food Facts
Dev contributors to improve UI

Wishful deliverables

Here we put wishful deliverables, if any.

Tool to monitor tag usages.
Workshop for contributors.

Questions/ideas

What about a deliverable dedicated to communication?
Use case in collaboration with scientists?

Archives

Old timeline.

Deliverable	Date	Who
D1. Ideation document: uses cases (report in wiki page) define first use cases (see D6)	Feb.	XX
D2. Functional and technical specifications (architecture design) (report in wiki page) Functional use cases and specifications. Technical specifications.	September	Charles Stéphane (Review)
D3. Server-side implementation (database and web UI): properties’ database implementation and CRUD interfaces with a minimal UI to validate the design: database implementation (new database or new fields) CRUD interfaces in the backend (Product Opener) web interfaces (in production)	September	Christian (dev) Charles (tests)
D4. Search and discovery integration and APIs. Making properties accessible using simple search and a discovery engine; integration with the advanced search; API access all dev in the backend	April-May	Stéphane (dev) XX (tests)
D5. Mobile UI integration on the Open Food Facts apps	June	XX
D6. Three uses cases: move ambiguous “Nutriscore Experiment” labels in tags XXXX (to be found) XXXX (to be found)	Sep.	XX

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-[[Category:Folksonomy Engine]]
+The goal of '''Folksonomy engine''' is to unleash an ocean of new usages regarding food knowledge. Folksonomy engine allows all kind of people — citizens, researchers, journalists, professionals, artists, communities, innovators... — to enrich and use Open Food Facts, thanks to '''free properties''' for your own use or to enrich the shared knowledge. Open Food Facts, as the biggest open-food database in the world, already feeds hundreds of data reuses. It will allow thousands of new apps and new usages.
-[[Category:Roadmap]]
-The goal of '''Folksonomy engine''' is to unleash an ocean of new usages regarding food knowledge. Folksonomy engine allows all kind of people — citizens, researchers, journalists, professionals, artists, communities, innovators... — to enrich and use Open Food Facts, thanks to '''free tags and properties''' for your own use or to enrich the shared knowledge. Open Food Facts, as the biggest open-food database in the world, already feeds hundreds of data reuses. It will allow thousands of new apps and new usages.
+== Key dates and numbers ==
+* 2021: project launched thanks to NlNet fund
+* 2021-10: Folksonomy Engine API works
+* 2021-11: Folksonomy Engine UI
+* 2022-01: First beta, for moderators only
+* 2024-09: Beta opened to all registered users
+* 2024-09: Created a tutorial
+== Why it matters ==
+For food products, it allows to create new kind of properties. Popular properties could join the official Open Food Facts model if they are often used.
+For other products, Folksonomy Engine could be the base layer to create many different properties related to many different types of products. Eg. un smartphone have very different properties than a driller.
+== What we’ve done recently ==
+* 2024: Fix small bugs.
+* 2024-09: Opened to any registered users.
+* 2024-09: Created a tutorial
+== What we are currently working on ==
+* 2024-09: start to work on better documentation
+* 2024-09: creating new properties for Open Products Facts
+== What’s coming up next ==
+* 2024-09: new home page
+== How to get involved ==
+# Start to read this page.
+# Join #folksonomy-engine channel on Slack
+# Read the [[Folksonomy_Engine/Tutorial|tutorial]] to get started
+== Delivered ==
+# An [https://api.folksonomy.openfoodfacts.org/docs API] to allow save/retry/modify property/value pairs for each product.
+# A user interface to for the end user, integrated to Open Food Facts.
+== People ==
+* Project owner: Charles Nepote; Lucas Huber at the beginning of the project
+* API dev: Christian Quest, then Alex Garel
+* Product Opener integration: Charles Nepote
+* With the help of: Stephane, Pierre, Alex, Aleene, Tacite, Jusdekiwi, Tacinte...
 == Documentation and communication ==
-* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ADMs4ngCaz0qaw1HGdLCywyuAfB8cxhCfK9yQqI7dao/ Short presentation] (4 pages)
-* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vYOAXGCatRx_wThW-JvOiM7P6VIIlweXr4uCOAhvEgU/ Folksonomy Whitepaper
+* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ADMs4ngCaz0qaw1HGdLCywyuAfB8cxhCfK9yQqI7dao/ Short presentation] (4 pages) [old documentation, to be modified]
 * Project document Wiki page. (This current document)
 Other directories/documents (if any)
-* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1U7OkC6ZTg3kk_3w5mPGnb1cl5mStFqBQ Main directory for documentation]
+* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Dvs8hqVkHFsPqFSGl_7Pdn36hPp7WyJ?usp=drive_link Main directory for presentation, description, documentation...]
-Slack channel: [https://app.slack.com/client/T02KVRT1Q/C01M1T2E8L8/thread/C0116U37JCE-1611738330.008000 #folksonomy_engine]
+Code and bug tracking on Github:
+* [https://github.com/openfoodfacts/folksonomy_engine Folksonomy Engine repo]: this repository centralise issues and discussions dedicated to the whole project
+* [https://github.com/openfoodfacts/folksonomy_api Folksonomy Engine API repo]
+* [https://github.com/openfoodfacts/folksonomy_frontend Folksonomy Engine frontend repo]
-== Who ==
-Skills needed (in short)
-* Project management
-* Dev
-Project team:
+== Get in touch ==
-* Project manager: Lucas
+{{Box
-* Project owner: Charles
+ | 1     =  Slack channel
-* End-user tester: ?
+ | 2     =  [https://openfoodfacts.slack.com/messages/C01M1T2E8L8/ #folksonomy_engine]
-* Dev: Stéphane
+}}
-* Others?
 == Use cases ==
@@ Line 35: / Line 80: @@
 See, [[Folksonomy Engine/Uses cases|some use cases]] we are starting to investigate.
+We also have investigated separately [[Folksonomy Engine/Mobile use cases|mobile use cases]], as they allow very different kind of things.
 == How ==
 As of today, Open Food Facts is made of a set of predefined properties (about 20 types of properties such as the product name, the product weight, the ingredients, the nutrients, etc.).
-Folksonomy engine will add several kinds of new individual data properties to Open Food Facts or Open Products Facts. In fact the scope of such new data properties is nearly endless, so we intend to get feedback from the community to define which one we should implement and how the user interface should look like.
+Folksonomy engine is adding several kinds of new individual data properties to Open Food Facts or Open Products Facts. In fact, the scope of such new data properties is nearly endless, so we intend to get feedback from the community to define which one we should implement and how the user interface should look like.
-=== Social tagging ===
+Properties, or material facts, allows to specify a value or multiple values for the corresponding product.
-Social tagging can be introduced in different ways. Simpler forms as Hashtags or Text Tags or more complex ones as individual attributes in units.
+Example: This product height is 35 cm, which ends up in a tag like [height = 35cm].
-==== Text Tags ====
+Sometimes a property can have multiple values:
-There are many ways to implement social tagging inside of text, as simple plain keywords or more sophisticated forms with colors or different types of tags. The list of tags can be completely free for the user, predefined by admins or curated by admins.
+Example:  This product has to be recalled if produced on 2020-03-31, 2020-04-01, 2020-04-02.
+[Recall: if produced from 2020-03-31 - 2020-04-02]
-==== Individual properties and attributes ====
+== Needs ==
+* More use cases to better understand how it will improve Open Food Facts
+* Dev contributors to improve UI
-Properties, or material facts, allowing to specify a value or multiple values for the corresponding product. Eg. it allows adding free properties with values.
+== Wishful deliverables ==
-Example: This product height is 35 cm, which ends up in a tag like [height = 35cm].
+Here we put wishful deliverables, if any.
+* Tool to monitor tag usages.
+* Workshop for contributors.
-Sometimes a property can have multiple values:
+== Questions/ideas ==
+* What about a deliverable dedicated to communication?
-Example:  This product has to be recalled if produced on 2020-03-31, 2020-04-01, 2020-04-02.
+* Use case in collaboration with scientists?
-[Recall: if produced from 2020-03-31 - 2020-04-02]
+== Archives ==
+Old timeline.
 {| class="wikitable"
 |- style="background-color:#c0c0c0;"
@@ Line 112: / Line 165: @@
 |}
-== Wishful deliverables ==
+[[Category:Project]]
-Here we put wishful deliverables if any.
+[[Category:Folksonomy Engine]]
-* Tool to monitor tag usages.
+[[Category:Roadmap]]
-* Workshop for contributors.
-== Questions/ideas ==
-* What about a deliverable dedicated to communication?
-* Use case in collaboration with scientists?