GlOSIS Ontology: Observation module

Abstract

This ontology is one of the modules comprising Global Soil Information System (GloSIS) ontology. The GloSIS ontology was developed part of the SIEUSOIL project, which aims at implementing and testing a shared China-EU Web Observatory platform that will provide Linked (Open) Data to monitor status and threats of soil and land resources. The GloSIS ontology enables the representation of soil related data in semantic format. The ontology has been derived from the UML GLOSIS data model v1.0, and it has been created in line with best practices and methodologies, reusing existing standard models and ontologies, including sosa/ssn for the representation of measurements, or SKOS for the representation of codelists.

Introduction back to ToC

This module contains the spatial class to describe the observation process, which is a subtype of OM_Process, and it is used to generate the result of the observation.

GloSIS Ontology: Observation module: Overview back to ToC

This ontology has the following classes and properties.

Classes

• GL_Observation

Cross-reference for GloSIS Ontology: Observation module classes, object properties and data properties back to ToC

This section provides details for each class and property defined by GloSIS Ontology: Observation module.

Acknowledgments back to ToC

The authors would like to thank Silvio Peroni for developing LODE, a Live OWL Documentation Environment, which is used for representing the Cross Referencing Section of this document and Daniel Garijo for developing Widoco, the program used to create the template used in this documentation.