@conference {W11-03, title = {W11-03: Sustainable food systems and food in ecosystems}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {This brief talk will outline the need for a global food ontology to flexibly represent food across human and natural ecosystems. From an anthropocentric point of view, the sustainability and resilience of the global food system - including the sustainability of ecosystems and human-made networks which support it - should be closely interlinked with entities which realise food roles and the global policy objectives to secure food supply for all. From a more "natural" point of view, a truly global food ontology should be flexible enough to link taxa (including humans) to their consumers via the simultaneous realisation of prey, detrital, and food roles. This feature would provide a semantic basis to model food webs and, in combination with compositional inventories, nutritional profiles for ecoinformatics. These anthropogenic and natural perspectives will inevitably converge as a biospheric representation of trophic patterns emerges, a process which a flexible food ontology can greatly accelerate. Vitally, these aims will require coordination across multiple established and emerging ontologies to be feasible in the long term and a number of potential synergies with the Environment Ontology, the Agronomy Ontology, and the Sustainable Development Goal Interface Ontology will be proposed.}, url = {http://icbo.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/}, author = {Pier Luigi Buttigieg} }