Ontology paper: The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group

  • Authors:

  • Michael Compton;Payam Barnaghi;Luis Bermudez;RaúL GarcíA-Castro;Oscar Corcho;Simon Cox;John Graybeal;Manfred Hauswirth;Cory Henson;Arthur Herzog;Vincent Huang;Krzysztof Janowicz;W. David Kelsey;Danh Le Phuoc;Laurent Lefort;Myriam Leggieri;Holger Neuhaus;Andriy Nikolov;Kevin Page;Alexandre Passant;Amit Sheth;Kerry Taylor

  • Affiliations:

  • CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia;University of Surrey, UK;Open Geospatial Consortium, USA;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Australia;Marine Metadata Interoperability, USA;DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland;Wright State University, USA;Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany;Ericsson, Sweden;University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and 52 North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software, Münster, Germany;Boeing, USA;DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland;CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia;DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland;Tasmanian ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia;The Open University, UK;University of Southampton, UK;DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland;Wright State University, USA;CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator group (the SSN-XG) produced an OWL 2 ontology to describe sensors and observations - the SSN ontology, available at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn. The SSN ontology can describe sensors in terms of capabilities, measurement processes, observations and deployments. This article describes the SSN ontology. It further gives an example and describes the use of the ontology in recent research projects.