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The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group

Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Volume 17, Issue C

Pages 25 - 32

Published: 01 December 2012 Publication History

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.

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Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Volume 17, Issue C

December 2012

45 pages

ISSN:1570-8268

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