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
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 (5): NFDI4Chem Collection NFDI4Ing Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection NFDI4Biodiversity 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'