The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group

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

The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group

Date

2012

Authors

Compton, Michael

Barnaghi, Payam

Bermudez, Luis

Garcia-Castro, Raul

Corcho, Oscar

Cox, Simon Jonathan

Graybeal, John

Hauswirth, Manfred

Henson, Cory

Herzog, Arthur

Publisher

Elsevier

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.