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https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO
Abstract
The ontology structures observatories across three main hierarchical levels: Regional Facilities – large-scale marine areas under long-term observation, Sites – specific geographic locations within a Regional Facility where observations take place, Platforms – physical structures (e.g., cabled observatories, moorings, landers) deployed at a site to carry scientific instruments. Two additional levels are planned for future development: Measured Parameters – describing the observed phenomena (e.g., temperature, pressure, biogeochemical indicators), Datasets and PIDs – linking observations and parameters to their corresponding published datasets (with persistent identifiers such as DOI). See more...
Accrual method
Manual and community-driven curation, based on expert contributions and the progressive formalisation of domain knowledge. Updates are proposed through real-world use cases and validated by the ontology editors. See more...
Accrual periodicity
http://purl.org/cld/freq/continuous See more...
Accrual policy
New content is added based on expert consensus and validation by the core ontology team (e.g., the EMSO Data Management Service Group). Updates follow a controlled process to ensure semantic consistency, alignment with external references, and sustainable reuse. See more...
Alternative name
OSO See more...
Observatories of Seas Ontology See more...
Audience
Marine data managers, Marine protected areas managers, Environmental research infrastructures (e.g. EMSO ERIC), Ocean observatory operators, Ontology engineers, Semantic web practitioners See more...
Bug database
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology/issues/
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology/issues/
Knowledge representation paradigm
The ontology conforms to the Description Logic paradigm and is implemented using OWL 2 DL and RDF(S). See more...
Contact*
Steven Piel (steven.piel@ifremer.fr)
Object creation date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
Submission date
April 4, 2025
Deprecated
false See more...
Description*
OSO (Observatories of Seas Ontology) provides a semantic framework for describing subsea and deep-sea observatories, with a particular focus on those operated within the EMSO-ERIC (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory) which is an European Research Infrastructure Consortium., Descriptive ontology for open seas observatories (including all EMSO observatories for European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatories), Ontology describing coastal and open seas observatories, including all EMSO observatories as part of the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatories infrastructure., Ontología que describe los observatorios marinos costeros y de alta mar, incluyendo todos los observatorios EMSO en el marco de la infraestructura europea multidisciplinar para el fondo marino y la columna de agua., Ontologie décrivant les observatoires marins côtiers et hauturiers, incluant l’ensemble des observatoires EMSO, dans le cadre de l'infrastructure européenne multidisciplinaire dédiée aux fonds marins et à la colonne d’eau., Ontologie care descrie observatoarele marine de coastă și de larg, inclusiv toate observatoarele EMSO, ca parte a infrastructurii europene multidisciplinare a fundului mării și a coloanei de apă., Ontologia que descreve os observatórios costeiros e de mar aberto, incluindo todos os observatórios EMSO no âmbito da infraestrutura europeia multidisciplinar dos fundos marinhos e da coluna de água., Ontologia che descrive gli osservatori marini costieri e d'altura, compresi tutti gli osservatori EMSO, nell'ambito dell'infrastruttura europea multidisciplinare dei fondali marini e della colonna d'acqua., Ontologi som beskriver kyst- og dyphavsobservatorier, inkludert alle EMSO-observatorier, som del av den europeiske tverrfaglige infrastrukturen for havbunn og vannsøyle., Οντολογία που περιγράφει τα παράκτια και ανοιχτά θαλάσσια παρατηρητήρια, συμπεριλαμβανομένων όλων των παρατηρητηρίων EMSO, στο πλαίσιο της ευρωπαϊκής πολυκλαδικής υποδομής για τον πυθμένα και τη στήλη του νερού., including all EMSO observatories... See more...
Designed for task (as defined by OMV).
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IntegrationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IntegrationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#AnnotationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#AnnotationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#QueryFormulationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#QueryFormulationTask
Documentation
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology
Example of use
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology/tree/main/extraction See more...
Example of resource
Azores See more...
Contributor
mailto:emso.dmsg@emso-eu.org
Creator
Steven Piel (Ifremer)
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1759-5254
Ifremer
Steven Piel (Ifremer)
EMSO Data Management Service Group (DMSG)
Steven Piel (Ifremer), on behalf of the EMSO community
EMSO Data Management Service Group (DMSG)
Steven PIEL (Ifremer), on behalf of the EMSO community
Subject
https://data.earthportal.eu/categories/EARTH See more...
https://data.earthportal.eu/categories/RESEARCH_INFRASTRUCTURE See more...
https://data.earthportal.eu/categories/OCEAN See more...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1438053 See more...
https://data.earthportal.eu/categories/MARINE_OBSERVATION See more...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43518 See more...
Marine Research Infrastructures See more...
Formality level
http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology
http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology
Has format
https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/OSO.rdf
OSO.rdf
https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/OSO.owl
OSO.owl
https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/OSO.diff
OSO.diff
https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/OSO.csv
OSO.csv
License
Creative Commons License
Representation language*
OWL See more...
Syntax
http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/Turtle
http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/Turtle
Prior version
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO/0.14
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO/0.14
Homepage
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology
Generic type
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#ApplicationOntology
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#ApplicationOntology
Key classes
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO#Platform See more...
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO#Site See more...
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO#Regional_Facility See more...
Keywords
marine observatories, FAIR data, EMSO, research infrastructures, ontology, underwater observatories See more...
EMSO, observatories, ontology, OSO, EarthPortal, Regional Facilities, Sites, Platforms See more...
Known usage
OSO Hierarchical Extraction Tool for EMSO ERIC Regional Facilities See more...
Input reference for Research Infrastructure Data Management Plans (DMPs) See more...
Semantic alignment with external vocabularies such as GeoSPARQL, FOAF, DCAT, and ISO 19115-3 See more...
FAIR data documentation and metadata alignment within the ODATIS and SeaDataNet communities See more...
EMSO ERIC Data Management System (including metadata harmonisation) See more...
EarthPortal ontology catalog (https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/OSO) See more...
Logo
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology/refs/heads/main/oso.png
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology/refs/heads/main/oso.png
Mailing list
mailto:emso.data@emso-eu.org (EMSO ERIC Data Management Team) See more...
Missingimports
https://w3id.org/cerif2/./ See more...
Modification date
July 18, 2025
Object modification date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
Natural language
Notes
Ontology describing the relationships between Regional Facilities, Sites, Platforms, Research Infrastructures, Organisations, Cruises, and the persons in charge of each levels. See more...
This ontology is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. See more...
Developed in the context of the EMSO-ERIC, the OSO ontology supports the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) by enabling semantic integration of marine observation data. It also facilitates: Links to organisations responsible for the facilities, Association with relevant geographical areas, Connection to scientific projects and oceanographic cruises. See more...
Ontology describing the relationships between Regional Facilities, Sites, Platforms, Research Infrastructures, Organizations, Cruises, and the persons in charge of each levels. See more...
Version 0.13 – Initial FAIR-compliant release with multilingual metadata, along with minor additions and corrections to class definitions, instances and identifiers. See more...
Version 0.14 – Initial FAIR-compliant release with multilingual metadata, along with minor additions and corrections to class definitions, instances and identifiers. See more...
Generally related to or relies on
https://purl.org/dc/terms/
https://purl.org/dc/terms/
https://ror.org/
https://ror.org/
https://www.w3.org/ns/org
https://www.w3.org/ns/org
https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/
https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology
https://schema.org/
https://schema.org/
https://edmo.seadatanet.org/
https://edmo.seadatanet.org/
https://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
https://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
https://www.w3.org/2006/time
https://www.w3.org/2006/time
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO_DCAT
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO_DCAT
Preferred namespace prefix
OSO See more...
Preferred namespace URI
https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/OSO#
OSO#
Bibliographic reference
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO
Publisher
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology
http://purl.org/dc/aboutdcmi#DCMI
Creation date*
April 4, 2025
Repository
https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/OSO
OSO
Similar to
https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/
https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/
Source
https://emso-eric.github.io/oso-ontology/ See more...
<https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology> See more...
https://github.com/emso-eric/oso-ontology See more...
Status*
Published See more...
URI Lookup Endpoint
https://earthportal.eu/search?ontologies=OSO&require_exact_match=true&q=
search?ontologies=OSO&require_exact_match=true&q=
Imports
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core
Used by
https://earthportal.eu/ontologies/SXT_IR
SXT_IR
Created with
Protégé See more...
Version information
0.15 - Test sites added See more...
Version IRI
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO/0.15
https://w3id.org/earthsemantics/OSO/0.15
Was generated by
Developed as part of the EMSO-ERIC Data Management Service Group activities, in support of the semantic harmonisation of European marine observatory infrastructures. See more...

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