| URI | http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/ |
| abstract | Similar to the original SSO, SOSA acts as a central building block for the SSN but puts more emphasis on light-weight use and the ability to be used standalone. |
| Alternative name | SOSA |
| audience | SOSA is added as a core, and is also useful as a standalone ontology targeting Web developers, citizen science, lightweight Linked Data publishing, resource-constraint IoT devices, data intensive applications (with the possibility of using lightweight reasoning), and so on. |
| bug Database | https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues |
| copyright Holder | Copyright 2017 W3C/OGC. |
| deprecated | false |
| endorsed By | |
| endpoint |  |
| example Identifier | http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Observation |
| has Formality Level | http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology |
| has License | http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document |
| Ontology Syntax | http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/Turtle |
| has Prior Version | SOSA/submissions/1 |
| identifier | http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/ |
| is Of Type | http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#DomainOntology |
| keywords | sensor, observation |
| known Usage | SOSA provides a lightweight core for SSN and aims at broadening the target audience and application areas that can make use of Semantic Web ontologies. |
| mailing List | mailto:public-sdwig@w3.org |
| Metadata vocabulary used | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ |
| Natural Language | |
| notes | The initial W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group ontology (SSN) was built around an ontology design pattern called the Stimulus Sensor Observation (SSO) pattern [SSO-Pattern]. The SSO was developed as a minimal and common ground for heavy-weight ontologies for the use on the Semantic Sensor Web as well as to explicitly address the need for light-weight semantics requested by the Linked Data community. The SSO was also aligned to the Dolce-Ultralite upper ontology (DUL). |
| preferred Namespace Prefix | sosa |
| publisher | W3C (https://www.w3.org/), OGC (http://www.opengeospatial.org/) |
| Release date | 2018-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 |
| repository | https://github.com/w3c/sdw |
| URI Lookup Endpoint | http://data.agroportal.lirmm.fr/search?ontologies=SOSA&require_exact_match=true&q= |
| use Imports | local:local |
| version | V-2017 |
