FTTO: An example of Food Ontology for Traceability Purpose

This paper describes our experience in the development of the Food Track&Trace Ontology (FTTO), an ontology oriented to the domain of food traceability. FTTO is used to share knowledge between agents involved in the Food Supply Chain and intends to be a reference that permits to work with information obtained through the matching and merging of different controlled vocabularies. As part of a bigger research project, the FTTO has been designed to be connected with a Global Traceability Information Systems obtained through the modelling of the food Supply Chain and of data required for internal and chain traceability. The paper presents the project milestones and the creation of the core ontology emphasizing on the development of the main classes.