German Nutrient Data Base BLS

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German Nutrient Data Base (BLS)
www.blsdb.de

• The BLS Cooperation Platform

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BLS Platforms
Cooperation
Publication
BLS cooperation platform
BLS portal
www.blsdb.de
www.cp.blsdb.de
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BLS Nutrient data workflow
BLACK BOX ???
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BLS Nutrient data workflow
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From desktop
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through an import interface
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to the platform
with all bibliographic data
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and full text option
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and literature search function
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from food item
group by
to nurient values
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from food item
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to LanguaL indexing
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with tree stucture and notes
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from food item
group by
to nurient values
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eg. vitamin k
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editable by flexible version workflow eg. new,
in proof, rejected, accepted
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with metadata
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with link to uploaded xls version of quality
rating. Next step Quality rating will be
available integrated in the system
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with audit trail and detailed history Who
changed, what, where, when and why
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BLS Nutrient data workflow
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The BLS Partnerarea
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Partner X
Dataexport
Partner area
BLS cooperation- platform

• Import interface
• Communication area
• Data display
• Data comparison

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create partner contact data
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import product data
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and product overview
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and information about the product and nutrients
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with data comparison tabular, graphical,
statistical
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BLS Nährstoffdaten Workflow
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eg searching for apple results in food items
and recipes, which nutritional values can be
originated from analyses, derivations, industrial
processed or household prepared foods.
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data generation process for every food is
controlled by a key data file item with detailed
computing documentation
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allocate eg. for a recipe ingredients, weight
yield, nutrient retention,
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verify, compute and export data
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BLS Cooperation Platform

• Server environment
• Programming language Java
• Web Script language Java Server Pages (JSP) 
• Webserver Apache 2.2.3 Tomcat 5.5.20
• Database MySQL 5.0, Database
  abstraction layer
• Operating system Linux, Debian Etch

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Cooperation platform Test version

• testcp.blsdb.deusername testblspassword
  letmein

• Full BLS data handling and computing
  functionality.
• Complete administrator rights.
• Constrains
• BLS data were altered by a random number.
• Data sources were deleted except one.
• Though the whole BLS were translated in English
  the interface functions only uses the German food
  descriptions so far.

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BLS Platforms
Cooperation
Publication

• Online available
• Modular extendable
• Flexible applicable

BLS cooperation platform
BLS portal
www.blsdb.de
www.cp.blsdb.de