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SOSA
Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology (SOSA)
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Last submission date August 13, 2018
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General information

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. See more...

Description

This ontology is based on the SSN Ontology by the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group (SSN-XG), together with considerations from the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group. See more...
Initial created on August 13, 2018. For additional information, contact Simon Cox (simon.cox@csiro.au).

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Keywords and classes

sensor
observation

Categories and subjects

Natural Resources, Earth and Environment
Agricultural Research, Technology and Engineering
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Total score : 254.75 ( 53.0%)
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Identifiers

URI

http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/
http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/

Dates

Creation date

August 13, 2018

Submission date

August 13, 2018

Persons and organizations

Contact

Simon Cox

Publisher

Open Geospatial Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium

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Projects and usage information

Projects using SOSA

No projects using SOSA

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.

Methodology and provenance

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Community

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.

Repository

https://github.com/w3c/sdw
https://github.com/w3c/sdw

Bug database

https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues
https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues

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).

Content

Preferred namespace prefix

sosa

Example of resource

http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Observation
http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Observation

Metadata vocabulary used

foaf

Visits

Views of SOSA

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