What feature of interest does a sensor observe ?

maximelefrancois86 commented 11 months ago

When the "generic property" modeling choice is adopted (i.e., properties are generic to any feature of interest), then SOSA/SSN does not cover the following competency questions:

we can model what property a sensor observes (sosa:observes), but what is the feature of interest it observes?
we can model for what property an actuator is for (ssn:forProperty), but what is the feature of interest it acts on?
we can model for what property a deployment is made (ssn:forProperty), but what is the feature of interest the deployment is made for?

Proposal: introduce properties like sosa:observesFeature, sosa:actsOnFeature, sosa:forFeature

maximelefrancois86 commented 10 months ago

alternatively, we could extend the domain of sosa:hasFeatureOfInterest so that it contains sosa:Sensor, sosa:Actuator, sosa:Deployment, etc.

dr-shorthair commented 9 months ago

OK - you are proposing that SSN should support the description of the Sensor/Actuator/Sampler (and maybe the Procedures as well?). It could apply to both Feature-types and individuals.

I agree that this looks like a logical extension of the ontology. However, W3C requires evidence-of-implementation. Do you have this through SAREF (for example)?

w3c / sdw-sosa-ssn

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