Harmonised information exchange between decentralised food composition database systems

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 64, Issue , 2010, Pages S58-S63

  Pakkala, H ^a   Christensen, T ^b   Martinez de Victoria I ^c   Presser, K ^d   Kadvan, A ^e  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Distributed databases; Eurofir; Food composition; Information systems; Web service

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECENTRALIZATION; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; FOOD COMPOSITION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; REFERENCE DATABASE; RESPONSIBILITY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOCUMENTATION; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78149268683     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2010.212     Document Type: Article

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