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=Grant proposal edits= Through this pilot project, we will write schemas to describe our data model based on five large food composition datasets that are already available online and develop good documentation for both project development and use. '''The focus on equity and global nature of the project requires diverse participants''', which is very much in line with the missions of projects supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Through this pilot project, we hope to show how peer production can contribute to the improvement in data/knowledge disparities in global nutrition. We believe that WikiData is an awesome way to build connections between a range of free culture related nutrition projects like [https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/open_food_facts/ Open Food Facts] that might do the same. We will test several automated and manual methods to populate the wikibase with nutrient data from 5 food composition databases from around the world (see the Project Plan section section for details). We will write schemas to describe our data model. We will map our properties to Wikidata properties. '''2. Why is this a good idea?''' * First, this Wikibase instance will '''significantly improve the usability of FCD from different sources for diverse users''' - from WikiProjects and Wikipedia editors and viewers to academic researchers to public health workers. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Food_and_drink WikiProject food and Drink] on English Wikipedia and [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8485990#sitelinks-wikipedia its equivalents in other languages] are universally popular WikiProjects among editors and likewise, many articles on food and drink are within the top 10% of any Wikipedia's articles by pageviews. This new project can contribute to a topic that is of high interest to many people. : Building a structured dataset is also a key step in identifying most appropriate data to borrow in resource-poor settings where up-to-date, detailed, and regionally appropriate FCD are not readily available. This new database will also open up ways to explore new research questions to explore more nuanced nutrition data (e.g. changes in nutrient content of the same product, depending on the climate conditions of the year), which can potentially make substantial advances in nutrition and health research. * Secondly, by creating an instance of Wikibase for this project, we will be able to design our own data models, with input from Wikidata, to '''incorporate data from heterogeneous data sources'''. If subsets of the data are appropriate for Wikidata, we will be able to provide machine-actionable ShEx schemas that will help us prepare data for other systems. In this way the data will be readily-available for incorporation into Wikidata if desired. ; '''UPDATE''': In our recent communication with the Open Food Facts community, they discussed that OFF is in fact interested in using data from USDA (USA) and CIQUAL (France). However, it is burdensome having to deal with diverse and dynamic formats - they mentioned three separate format changes in USDA since they started looking at this. Having another project like WikiFCD can help each community focus on their main project goals instead of each having to deal with these issues we raised in this proposal. This conversation with OFF reinforces our belief that WikiFCD will be helpful to diverse peer production communities. * Finally, we will '''complete this project with diverse communities from around the world''' as these FCD can be translated into/from many languages. The design of Wikibase will allow us to more easily support additional languages in the data itself, as well as in user interfaces.
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