Registry Semantic Sensor Network Ontology

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
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

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: hasProperty Resolve
Example CURIE: ssn:hasProperty

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 (4): NFDI4Chem Collection NFDI4Ing Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection

Mappings to External Registries

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

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`SSN`
AgroPortal	`agroportal`	`SSN`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`SSN`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.c0bvcy`
LOV	`lov`	`ssn`
TIB-TS	`tib`	`ssn`
Zazuko	`zazuko`	`ssn`

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 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.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
Semantic Sensor Network Ontology	`ssn`	http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/hasProperty
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/ssn:hasProperty

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("ssn")
'Semantic Sensor Network Ontology'

Get the license:

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

Get the homepage:

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

Get the repository:

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

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("ssn")
'http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/SSN/2/ssn.owl'

Get the RDF download link:

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

Get the contact's name:

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

Get the contact's email:

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

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

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

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

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