TITLE:
Application of ontologies to traceability in the dairy supply chain
AUTHORS:
L. Magliulo, L. Genovese, V. Peretti, N. Murru
KEYWORDS:
Information Integration; Business Process; Ontology; Agri-food Supply Chain; Dairy Chain, Value Chain
JOURNAL NAME:
Agricultural Sciences,
Vol.4 No.5B,
July
15,
2013
ABSTRACT: Systems for tracking
products through supply chains range from paper-based records maintained by
producers, processors, and suppliers to sophisticated ICT-based solutions. In
addition to supporting product traceability, ICTs may also support data
capture, recording, storage, and sharing of traceability attributes on
processing, genetics, inputs, disease/pest
tracking and measurement of
environmental variables. A key success factor for a traceability system
is the capability to integrate and share information along the supply chain.
ICT represents a tool to overcome integration problems, data fusion and information
dissemination. In this paper we illustrate
the application of ontology as a tool to model business processes and
rules within an agri- food chain. The business case is represented by the
Bovlac project: a scientific and technologic platform to trace fresh cheese production.