appears_in: []
contact:
  email: dr.shorthair@pm.me
  github: dr-shorthair
  name: Simon Cox
  orcid: 0000-0002-3884-3420
contributor:
  github: StroemPhi
  name: Philip Strömert
  orcid: 0000-0002-1595-3213
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
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.
download_rdf: https://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/
example: FeatureOfInterest
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 1274
homepage: https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/
keywords:
- environment
- iot
license: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document
mappings:
  agroportal: SOSA
  lov: sosa
  zazuko: sosa
name: Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology
preferred_prefix: sosa
prefix: sosa
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2018.06.003
  title: 'SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators'
  year: 2019
repository: https://github.com/w3c/sdw
reviewer:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/$1
