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W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group
The mission of the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to begin the formal process of producing ontologies that define the capabilities of sensors and sensor networks, and to develop semantic annotations of a key language used by services based sensor networks.
Find more in the charter of the XG, including the participation details.
Learn more about Incubator Activity at W3C.
SSN XG Results and Archives
- Incubator report (Final version 28 June 2011)
- SSN Ontology (OWL file and documentation) http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn
- SSN Ontology documentation SSN (wiki)
- Archives
Participation
Group Updates
Available RSS/Atom feeds:
Recommendations
- Create a W3C community group focused on the maintenance and extension of the SSN Ontology,
- Encourage W3C peers to continue to work on the generic issues surrounding ontology alignment and import in OWL, which currently raises specific challenges for the publication, packaging and maintenance of the SSN Ontology,
- Encourage the W3C Provenance Working Group to work on sensor-specific issues,
- Request the W3C to promote uptake of the SSN ontology in the W3C community,
- Encourage W3C and OGC to coordinate their activities in this area.
SSN Incubator Group Report
W3C SSN Incubator Group Report - FINAL VERSION
Major products of the group's work
- 2011-06-28: Report published (last version) and SSN Ontology moved to final location and validated with Vapour
- 2011-06-16: Packaged the report and ontologies for publication by W3C, starting from the final version on the wiki: Introduction, Intent and Process, Motivating Use cases, Review of Sensor and Observations Ontologies, SSN ontology, Semantic Markup, Mappings, Conclusion and Recommendations
- 2010-10-20: Started final XG report reviews (on completed parts)
- 2010-10-19: Sensor Discovery on Linked Data example added to report
- 2010-09-08: Started modular ontology documentation based on four different examples: Uni Deployment, Smart product, Wind sensor and Agriculture Meteorology included in XG report
- 2010-08-31: Revision of the SSN ontology including the alignment with DOLCE Ultra Lite
- 2010-08-11: First publication of the semi-automatically generated documentation for the SSN ontology
- 2010-08-11: First publication of the SSN ontology (wiki copy) as http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn
- 2010-08-03: Started Incubator Report (ontology documentation and examples)
- 2010-07-20: Decision to align the SSN ontology with DOLCE Ultra Lite
- 2010-06-02: Refined SSN ontology scope to focus on sensor-specific aspects like Measuring capabilities, Deployment and System, Operating restrictions
- 2010-03-01: Extension of the SSN XG for 6 months
- 2010-02-09: Intermediate report
- 2010-01-13: DRAFT Semantic Markup report later included in XG report as Semantic Markup
- 2009-12-02: Post-F2F version of the SSN ontology known as SensorBasis.owl
- 2009-10-24: Face-to-face Meeting in Washington
- 2010-10-20: Started compiling terminology from OGC SWE, OIML VIM, MMI OntDev , MINET and Wikipedia
- 2009-09-20: Selection of the Reference Use Cases shortlisted from the identified use cases selected as favorites use cases
- 2009-08-26 Started working on the SSN ontology, using the CSIRO Sensor ontology as the starting point
- 2009-07-01: Started review of existing ontologies later included in the XG report as Review of Sensor and Observations Ontologies
- 2009-04-08: First of the group's weekly teleconfs
- 2009-03-04: The SSN XG begins activities with this charter
See also:
- Semantic Sensor Net Ontology archive of intermediate results for this activity including links to SSN Skeleton, SSN Model, SSN Sensor, SSN Observation, SSN Deploy, SSN Base, SSN Device, SSN Energy and to all the produced ontologies
- Semantic Mark up archive of intermediate results for this activity
- List of Meetings, (with minutes/slides) and scribe list
- Events: Interesting SSN-related events
- Publications and Talks
- Participants project descriptions and relevance for the Incubator activity
Where is the SSN OWL file?
- The Semantic Sensor Network Ontology has been published according to the Best Practice Recipe 3a for Publishing RDF vocabularies http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/#recipe3a with a 303 PURL
- The http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn can be used to access both the owl file (when accessed from RDF clients like Protege) and the documentation (when accessed from browser)
- This is how it works now:
- First http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn is redirected to http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/ssnx/ssn
- Then the .htaccess file give the content of http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/ssnx/ssn.owl if the client asks for a 'application/rdf+xml' Content Type
- And to http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/ssnx/ssn.html if the client asks for a 'application/xhtml+xml' or 'text/html' Content Type
- If you want to access the owl file in your browser then you have to use http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/ssnx/ssn.owl
- The same approach is used for the other ontologies referenced in the XG report.
Meetings
- Instruction for Teleconferences (and meeting times): Using the IRC channel to document teleconferences and TeleconEtiquette
- Only for official participants, see instructions to join a W3C group, or even join W3C .
- Agenda sent to mailing list 24 hours before meeting
Contacts
- Laurent Lefort (CSIRO), Group Co-Chair
- Kerry Taylor (CSIRO), Group Co-Chair
- Amit Sheth (KNOESIS, Wright State University), Group Co-Chair
Misc.
- Memos: Publish XG Documents and Incubator Group Report (XGR) guidelines
- W3C: XGuide: The missing guide for Incubator Groups , Introduction to XG life + various pointers
Reports, articles and documents of interest, used for the XG activities
