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This page acts as a collection of community-wide announcements, typically related to the SWEET ontology.
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Dear Colleagues,
The ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee is happy to announce the immediate release and availability of the Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) ontology v3.5.0.
SWEET is a highly modular ontology suite with >11000 concepts in 225 separate ontologies covering Earth system science. You can view the entire concept space from an ontology editor/tool such as Protege by reading in the sweetAll.ttl file packaged with every release. Alternatively, ontologies can be viewed individually. SWEET consists of nine top-level concepts/ontologies and is considered as a middle-level ontology; most users add a domain-specific ontology which extends these upper-level SWEET components. SWEET ontologies are written in W3C Turtle, the Terse RDF Triple Language, and are publicly available under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Various ontology alignments are also packaged with SWEET releases e.g. W3C SOSA/SSN and W3C DCAT.
The most significant change is that we are adding multiple definitions from other well known vocabularies to SWEET classes. After a healthy discussion, results of the voting were in favor of the enhancement. Adding multiple definitions, where appropriate, for each class will help identify clear and fuzzy concepts within the domain, as well as identify areas where structural changes may be warranted. It should be noted that all definitions will be added as annotation properties which will not affect any logical axioms in place, or in development.
Other highlights include:
- The license is now CC0 throughout
- Added UCUM codes for unit prefixes
- Added all rogue rdfs:comment text from previous versions
- Added over 5000 mineral classes
- Compiled results of the SWEET survey
SWEET resources are also available as linked data via the ESIP Community Ontology Repository. Additionally, SWEET can be downloaded from the official SWEET Github releases page, please make sure to download the release with the 'Latest Release' tag.
For further information on SWEET Community and Development is available online. This resource can also be used for community discussion as well as reporting technical issues.
As a community, we rely on the support of all types of contributors; our SMEs help ensure the accuracy and integrity of SWEET and the more technically inclined help ensure the resource maintains its efficacy as well as web accessibility. Please get in touch if you are interested.
Many thanks to all active and past contributors.
Thank you, /Brandon On behalf of the ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee
Call for Subject Matter Experts to Join the Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) Governance Panel
To: esip-all@lists.esipfed.org, esip-all Slack channel
Title: Call for Subject Matter Experts to Join the Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) Governance Panel
Hello all ESIP'ers,
In recent months the ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee [0] has been hard at work transitioning the Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) suite of ontologies over to their new home at ESIP.
What is SWEET?
SWEET provides an upper-level ontology for knowledge representation across Earth System Science. SWEET is highly modular with ~6000 concepts in ~200 separate ontologies, meaning that it covers a wide variety of domains.
So why might I be interested?
The Semantic Technologies Committee is currently in the process of revitalizing SWEET as a true community resource. This includes
- availability of the resource within the ESIPFed Organization Github [1] through the SWEET repository [2],
- provisioning of the resource under the permissive Apache License v2.0 [3],
- use of a vetted community development model for sustainable and inviting development of the resource, and
- last but not least, a community-based peer review and governance model ensuring that SWEET is a technically, scientifically and practically accurate resource for semantic's and knowledge representation enthusiasts across the Earth Sciences.
OK... so what do you want help with?
The Semantic Technologies Committee is extending an open invitation to ALL interested parties with a special emphasis on Subject Matter Experts from across the following disciplines
Integrative Topics
- Natural Phenomena (Macroscale e.g. ecological, physical)
- Human Activity (commerce, decisions, environment, jurisdiction, research)
- Data (provenance, formats, modeling, products, services, analysis, geospatial, reduction, validation, processing)
Faceted Topics
- Living Substances
- Non-Living Substances
- Physical Processes (microscale)
- Earth Realm
- Physical Properties (observation)
- Space
- Time
- Units
- Numerics
... and many many more. If this grabs your interest, please contact the Semantic Technologies Committee via out mailing list [5] and register your interest at the following Github Issue [6].
Thank you in advance, XXX (On behalf of the ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee)
[0] http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Semantic_Technologies
[1] https://github.com/ESIPFed
[2] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet
[3] https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
[4] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet#how-to-work-with-us-on-github
[5] http://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-semanticweb