Abstract
This paper presents an alignment between the W3C ProvenanceWorking Group's recommended ontology (PROV-O) and the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group's ontology (SSNO). The alignment views PROV-O as an upper ontology which is extended with SSNO concepts and properties. This allows representation of observation details and sensor deployments that are not possible in the SSNO alone, and gives a basis for alignment with Open Geospatial Consortium Observations & Measurements aligned ontologies. Further to the alignment, rules are presented that further constrain the interpretation of the aligned ontologies and provide a mechanism by which provenance information can be generated from SSN data thereby allowing modellers to take advantage of the new features. The benefit of the aligned ontologies is illustrated with an example of cross-domain provenance querying enabled by the alignment.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 67-82 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
| Volume | 1401 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | Terra Cognita - Semantic Sensor Networks, TC-SSN 2014 - 6th International Workshop on the Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web and 7th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks, co-located with 13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014 - Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy Duration: 20 Oct 2014 → … |