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.

Prefix

ssn

Keywords

engineering ess imaging iot methods monitoring nfdi4chem nfdi4ing ontology remote sensing resource metadata sensor data w3c rec web of things

Version

New modular version of the SSN ontology. This ontology was originally developed in 2009-2011 by the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group (SSN-XG). For more information on the group's activities see: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/. The ontology was revised and modularized in 2015-2017 by the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group, see: https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Semantic_Sensor_Network_Ontology. In particular, (a) the scope is extended to include actuation and sampling; (b) the core concepts and properties are factored out into the SOSA ontology. The SSN ontology imports SOSA and adds formal axiomatization consistent with the text definitions in SOSA, and adds classes and properties to accommodate the scope of the original SSN ontology.

License

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document

Links

Homepage Repository OWL RDF Request Discussion

Publications

2019 The Modular SSN Ontology: A Joint W3C and OGC Standard Specifying the Semantics of Sensors, Observations, Sampling, and Actuation

https://bioregistry.io/doi:10.3233/SW-180320

2018 SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators

2012 The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

hasProperty   Resolve

Example CURIE

ssn:hasProperty

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

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

In Collection (5)

NFDI4Chem Collection NFDI4Ing Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection Earth System Sciences Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 7 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

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 hasProperty is used to demonstrate the providers available for Semantic Sensor Network 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.