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: engineering environment ess iot nfdi4chem nfdi4ing ontology
License: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document
Links: Homepage Repository RDF Request Discussion
Publications: 2019 SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: FeatureOfInterest Resolve
Example CURIE: sosa:FeatureOfInterest

Contacts

Contact: Simon Cox 0000-0002-3884-3420 dr-shorthair
Contributors: submitter Philip Strömert 0000-0002-1595-3213 StroemPhi
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 (6): NFDI4Chem Collection NFDI4Ing Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection NFDI4Biodiversity Collection Earth System Sciences Collection

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 5 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AgroPortal	`agroportal`	`SOSA`
BiodivPortal	`biodivportal`	`SOSA`
LOV	`lov`	`sosa`
TIB-TS	`tib`	`sosa`
Zazuko	`zazuko`	`sosa`

Providers

Suggest

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. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

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

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("sosa")
'Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("sosa")
'http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("sosa")
'https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("sosa")
'https://github.com/w3c/sdw'

Get the RDF download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_rdf_download("sosa")
'https://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("sosa")
'Simon Cox'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("sosa")
'dr.shorthair@pm.me'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("sosa")
'dr-shorthair'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("sosa")
'0000-0002-3884-3420'