MIFC

About MIFC

The Minimum Information (about any) Food Composition (MIFC), data standard. MIFC provides a general-purpose schema for the description of Food Composition Tables and Databases (FCT/D). MIFC is intended to enumerate, standardize and validate (meta)/data relevant to FCT/D. MIFC is a Minimum Information Standard (MIS) for food composition data. MIS are sets of guidelines and data reporting formats that are used to standardize scientific data.

Contribution

MIFC is an open-source project. MIFC development is led by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) FoodData Central (FDC), as well as the open source MIFC Standard Consortium. Contributors welcome! Please help us improve the content of MIFC by making issues and or submitting pull requests.

Note

This working version of MIFC is a prototype and not an officially adopted USDA resource.

Website

https://kaiiam.github.io/mifc

Repository Structure

• examples/ - example data
• project/ - project files (do not edit these)
• src/ - source files (edit these)
  • mifc
  • schema -- LinkML schema (edit this)
  • datamodel -- generated Python datamodel
• tests/ - Python tests

Developer Documentation

Credits

This project was made with linkml-project-cookiecutter.