This is a repository for the plasma ontology development. Plasma Ontology (plasma-ontology.ttl), also called Plasma-O, is a domain-specific ontology for low-temperature plasma science and technology. It reuses several classes and properties from other ontologies such as VIVO, BIBO, and FOAF. The repository also consists of an example knowledge graph, called Plasma Knowledge Graph (data/plasma-knowledge-graph.rdf) or Plasma-KG, which was built using Plasma-O (version 0.5.0) and the VIVO software platform (version 1.13). From the provided knowledge graph, users can query various instance data using SPARQL (example python scripts with SPARQL queries are also provided in the repository under the scripts directory).
Using the Protégé software is recommended to further develop the ontology.
Example queries can be run using the provided python scripts (under the scripts directory). To set up the python environment to run the scripts, do the following (on a Linux machine):
$ git clone https://github.com/plasma-mds/plasma-ontology.git—clone the repository$ cd plasma-ontology—go to the project directoryplasma-ontology$ python -m venv venv—create a python virtual environment (note that Python 3.8.7 was used as the time the scripts were prepared)plasma-ontology$ source venv/bin/activate—activate the virtual environmentplasma-ontology$ pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt—install the dependencies needed to run the scriptsplasma-ontology$ python scripts/sparql_querry1.py—run the script for the first SPARQL query exampleCurrently, this repository is maintained by the Research Data Management (RDM) group of the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology. For support and inquiry, please send an e-mail to ihda.chaeronysiffa@inp-greifswald.
Plasma-O and Plasma-KG will be developed further to accommodate various and new competency questions arising in the field of low-temperature plasma science and technology.
We are open to collaborations. Feed backs from low-temperature plasma scientists and researchers, as well as ontology experts are welcome, as we believe collaborative work is an important key to develop the ontology and knowledge graph further.
This work was partly funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG,German Research Foundation)—Project Number 496963457 and the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)—Grant Marks 16QK03A & 16QK03B. The responsibility for the content of this repository lies with the authors.
Plasma-O and Plasma-KG are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).