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Semantic Sensor Network Ontology

KGXBioPortal ontologyvNew modular version of the SSN ontology. This ontology was originally developed in 2009-2011 by the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group (SSN-XG). For more information on the group's activities see: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/. The ontology was revised and modularized in 2015-2017 by the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group, see: https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Semantic_Sensor_Network_Ontology. In particular, (a) the scope is extended to include actuation and sampling; (b) the core concepts and properties are factored out into the SOSA ontology. The SSN ontology imports SOSA and adds formal axiomatization consistent with the text definitions in SOSA, and adds classes and properties to accommodate the scope of the original SSN ontology.opengeospatial.org/ogc/Software
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A KGX transformation of the BioPortal ontology Semantic Sensor Network Ontology (SSN), produced by KG‑Bioportal. Nodes are ontology classes; edges are the relations between them. The base graph is the ontology on its own, imports stripped; the full graph, where built, has the import closure merged in.

Base graph at a glance

93
Nodes
135
Edges
New modular version of the SSN ontology. This ontology was originally developed in 2009-2011 by the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group (SSN-XG). For more information on the group's activities see: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/. The ontology was revised and modularized in 2015-2017 by the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group, see: https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Semantic_Sensor_Network_Ontology. In particular, (a) the scope is extended to include actuation and sampling; (b) the core concepts and properties are factored out into the SOSA ontology. The SSN ontology imports SOSA and adds formal axiomatization consistent with the text definitions in SOSA, and adds classes and properties to accommodate the scope of the original SSN ontology.
Version
2026-09-14
Transformed

Products & downloads

Base
KGX base graph (imports stripped)
SSN.tar.gz
93 nodes · 135 edges
Full
KGX full graph (imports merged in)
SSN_full.tar.gz
79 nodes · 196 edges

The base graph contains SSN_nodes.tsv and SSN_edges.tsv. The full graph contains SSN_full_nodes.tsv and SSN_full_edges.tsv: this ontology plus the 1 it imports (and their imports in turn), merged by ROBOT. Use it when the imported terms matter; the base graph merges more cleanly with other graphs. Releases are incremental, so each link points at whichever release most recently rebuilt this ontology.

Imports 1

What this ontology pulls in through owl:imports. An import that is itself a BioPortal ontology links to its page here; a module of one links to the ontology it belongs to; anything else links out, or is named by its namespace when it is not a web address. The base graph leaves all of these out; the full graph, where built, has them merged in.

Biolink categories 1 category across 93 nodes

NamedThing93

An item carrying more than one category is counted under each, so these counts can add up to more than the total.

Biolink categories 1 category across 135 edges

Association135

An item carrying more than one category is counted under each, so these counts can add up to more than the total.