appears_in: []
contact:
  email: dr.shorthair@pm.me
  github: dr-shorthair
  name: Simon Cox
  orcid: 0000-0002-3884-3420
contributor:
  email: philip.stroemert@tib.eu
  github: StroemPhi
  name: Philip Strömert
  orcid: 0000-0002-1595-3213
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: This ontology describes sensors, actuators and observations, and related
  concepts. It does not describe domain concepts, time, locations, etc. these are
  intended to be included from other ontologies via OWL imports.
download_owl: https://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/
download_rdf: https://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/ssn.ttl
example: hasProperty
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 1272
homepage: https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn
keywords:
- engineering
- ess
- imaging
- iot
- methods
- monitoring
- nfdi4chem
- nfdi4ing
- ontology
- remote sensing
- resource metadata
- sensor data
- w3c rec
- web of things
license: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document
mappings:
  aberowl: SSN
  agroportal: SSN
  bioportal: SSN
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.c0bvcy
  lov: ssn
  tib: ssn
  zazuko: ssn
name: Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
preferred_prefix: ssn
prefix: ssn
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.3233/sw-180320
  title: 'The Modular SSN Ontology: A Joint W3C and OGC Standard Specifying the Semantics
    of Sensors, Observations, Sampling, and Actuation'
  year: 2019
- doi: 10.3233/SW-180320
- doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2018.06.003
  title: 'SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators'
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2012.05.003
  title: The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group
  year: 2012
repository: https://github.com/w3c/sdw-sosa-ssn
reviewer:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/$1
