Database Team
What
The Open Food Facts project defines itself as an Open Database on Food products, so this is at the heart of our project.
The Database Team tries to ensure the database is complete and without errors.
Aim 🎯
Our users need to be able to get products they care about and find accurate data on them, helping their choice in everyday life.
When we build the database, we are contributing to a knowledge common, a gift to humanity that can help improve life in many ways.
Researchers also needs to know they can count on a database with lots of accurate data.
Needs/ Missions
- Add or improve products - this is the most easy and important activity
- Holding event to improve contribution like Scan Parties
- Help improve Quality
- Moderation - for experienced users, it helps removing unwanted image or counteract vandalism
- Improving Taxonomies - a work to try to structure data (categories, ingredients, etc.)
Tools 🛠
| TOOL | WHAT ? |
|---|---|
| Open Food Facts website facets | On Open Food Facts website, the facets represent a global mecanism to navigate thru the data. To see how it works, just start with the home page and use the <Explore products by...> button. |
| Ingredients to be completed facet | The list of all products which ingredients need to be completed. You can refine this list thanks to another facet. |
| Categories to be completed facet | The list of all products which categories need to be completed. You can refine this list thanks to another facet. |
| Power User Script | This is an add-on for your browser to empower Open Food Facts contribution. |
| Hunger Games | This tools contains many little games to complete products, based on Artificial Intelligence detection. |
Team referent
Charles: charles@openfoodfacts.org (@Charles Nepote on the forum and Slack).
Connect
- #contributors - contribution in English (see also #contributors-fr)
- #quality-data a channel for data quality
- #taxonomies a channel about taxonomies
- #moderators is a private chan for moderators
There is also a forum for those who prefer this type of communication (expect more time between messages).
A monthly data quality meetup also takes place, see calendar in Events.