Building an information infrastructure of spectroscopic profiling data for food-drug quality and safety management

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the rapid, non-invasive spectroscopic profiling technologies, such as Raman spectrometry and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry, have gained great concern for food-drug quality and safety management. To develop an information infrastructure for spectroscopic profiling data, this paper conducted three inter-related researches. First, a domain ontology is built to represent various spectroscopic profiling data and context information. Second, a workflow profile for processing spectroscopic profiling data is proposed. Third, based on the domain ontology and workflow profile, an information system – SPACS (Spectroscopic Profiling Data Achieving and Communication System) was developed and validated in the actual settings.

KEYWORDS:

• Domain ontology
• workflow profile
• food-drug quality and safety
• spectroscopic profiling
• information system

Acknowledgments

The authors would also like to thank the Illinois Fire Service Institute Library and the School of Information Sciences in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for providing research facilities.

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Funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [91746202, 61806177 and 71433006]; and China Scholarship Council under Grant [201808330609].