Registry Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology

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.

Prefix
sosa
Keywords
environment iot
License
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document
Links
Homepage Repository RDF Request Discussion
Contact
Simon Cox   0000-0002-3884-3420   dr-shorthair
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
FeatureOfInterest   Resolve
Example CURIE
sosa:FeatureOfInterest
Publications
2019 SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators
Contributors
Reviewer
Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection
NFDI4Chem Collection
Metaregistry Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AgroPortal AgroPortal logo agroportal SOSA
LOV Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov sosa
Zazuko Zazuko Prefix Server logo zazuko sosa
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier FeatureOfInterest is used to demonstrate the providers available for Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology sosa http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/FeatureOfInterest
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/sosa:FeatureOfInterest