{"prefix":"langual","name":"Langua aLimentaria Thesaurus","description":"Langual stands for \"langua alimentaria\" or \"language of food\". it is an automated method for describing, capturing and retrieving data about food. the work on langual was started in the late 1970's by the center for food safety and applied nutrition (cfsan) of the united states food and drug administration as an ongoing co-operative effort of specialists in food technology, information science and nutrition. the thesaurus provides a standardized language for describing foods, specifically for classifying food products for information retrieval. langual is based on the concept that: - any food (or food product) can be systematically described by a combination of characteristics - these characteristics can be categorized into viewpoints and coded for computer processing - the resulting viewpoint/characteristic codes can be used to retrieve data about the food from external databases","pattern":"^B\\d+$","uri_format":"https://www.langual.org/langual_thesaurus.asp?termid=$1","providers":[],"homepage":"https://www.langual.org","example":"B2067","example_extras":[],"deprecated":false,"mappings":{},"synonyms":[],"keywords":[],"publications":[],"appears_in":[],"depends_on":[],"namespace_in_lui":false,"contributor":{"name":"Charles Tapley Hoyt","orcid":"0000-0003-4423-4370","email":"cthoyt@gmail.com","github":"cthoyt"},"preferred_prefix":"langual","github_request_issue":507}