FSDF Ontology
This 1.0 is an early version of the ontology but is a great departure from the 0.5 version that was published in 2018. This version concentrates on defining the FSDF concepts, not listing all of the FSDF datasets which are listed in a separate data graph within the overall FSDF Knolwedge Graph. This version imports the FSDF common elements ontology
1.2: use of slash IRI, not hash
An ontology describing the concepts relevant to the [ANZLIC - The Spatial Information Council](https://www.anzlic.gov.au)s' Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF) project which is "a common reference for the assembly and maintenance of Australian and New Zealand foundation level spatial data". This contology contains a number of classes relevant to dataset description, management and provenance, such as `Dataset`, `Mandate` (laws/policies causing the generation of datasets), `Agency` (government bodies that own and create datasets) and `Jurisdition` (government bodies that authority within a domain). Additionally, properties that link these classes, such as `affectsAgency` (linking a `Mandate` to an `Agency`). It also contains taxonomies (vocabularies) used to categorise datasets and sub-dataset elements. The main taxonomy is the "FSDF Themes" and there are many specialised sub-taxonomies for elements within it, such as "FSDF Themes - Physcial Infrastructure". Also provided here are common properties for FSDF datasets and their contents, such as `hasGroundRelation` (relates an infrastructure Feature to the earth's surface) as well as taxonomies for many of these proerties' values.
Nicholas J. Car
Kurrawong AI is a small, Artificial Intelligence, company in Australia specialising in Knowledge Graphs.
ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council
An agent is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent's activity
Agent
Concept
An idea or notion; a unit of thought
Fuel
A type of fuel used by powerstations. May be renewable or non-renewable. All instances of these are contained within the Fuels taxonomy within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
Ground Relation
The relations of geospatial Feature to the earth's surface. All instances of these are contained within the Ground Relations taxonomy within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
Material
Types of material used to construct buildings and facilities in various FSDF datasets. All instances of these are contained within the Materials taxonomy within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
Observable Property
Properties of Features that may be observed. All instances of these are contained within the Observable Properties taxonomy within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
Operational Status
The status of the operations of FSDF infrastructure assets (Features). All instances of these are contained within the Operational Statuses taxonomy within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
Physical Condition
The types of physical condition that buildings and facilities are known to be in, in various FSDF datasets. All instances of these are contained within the Physical Conditions taxonomy within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
Power Station Structures
The types of structure that Power Stations might have. All instances of these are contained within the PSStructures taxonomy within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
FSDF Theme
A skos:Concept taken from the FSDF programme's controlled list of 'Themes'. All instnaces are contained within the FSDF Themes taxonomy, and sub-taxonomies of it, all within the FSDF Knowledge Graph
An organization such as a government agency, a school, NGO, corporation, club, or even a whole government
Organisation
An FSDF Agency is a Government Organisation that is involved with the FSDF Programme
Agency
# example from the FSDF datagraph Agencies agencies:nntt a fsdf:Agency ; sdo:name "National Native Title Tribunal"@en ; .
A collection of data, published or curated by a single agent, and available for access or download in one or more representations
Dataset
A Jurisdiction is a Government Organization that has authority within a domain. The specific domains considered by the FSDF Programme are the Australian Commonwealth (Federal), Australian States and Territories and the Commercial sector
Jurisdiction
An FSDF Mandate is an Australian Commonwealth or State & Territory legislation thatassigns responsibility for FSDF data or operations to an FSDF Agency. An FSDF Mandate is represented as a specialised form of DCAT Resource which ensures that a DCAT-style catalogue of instances of FSDF Mandates can be made
Mandate
# example from the FSDF datagraph Mandates # Here the Mandate is a law (an Act) that was enacted by Victoria # This Act comples the collection of certain natural-resource datasets by DELWP mandates:clp-1994 a fsdf:Mandate ; dcterms:title "Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994"@en ; fsdf:responsibleAuthority jurisdictions:vic ; fsdf:affectsAgency agencies:delwp ; .
The class Feature Collection represents any collection of individual Features
Feature Collection
This class represents the top-level feature type. This class is equivalent to GFI_Feature defined in ISO 19156, and it is superclass of all feature types
Feature
A Agency that is subject to the instructions of this Mandate
affects agency
# example from the FSDF datagraph Mandates # Here a particular Mandate affects a particular Agency mandates:clp-1994 fsdf:affectsAgency agencies:delwp ; .
The Agency that manages this Dataset
has custodian
The Jurisdiction responsible for this object
has jurisdiction
primary fuel
The primary fuel type used by a generator
primary sub-fuel
The primary sub-fuel type used by a generator
generator number
The generator number for electricity generation infrastructure
embedded network operator
The embedded network operator identifier for electricity generation infrastructure
Agency and Jurisdiction Union
Union of all Agency and Jurisdiction instances
The authority responsible for a Mandate
responsible authority
The mode of physical operation of the feature
has operational status
The provenance (source from which, and date) that feature data was received
feature data provenance
The relation of this Feature to the earth's surface
has relation to ground
A Feature with this theme has this expected Observable Property
theme of feature with property
# example from the feature-property-relations datagraph themes:electrical-infrastructure fsdf:themeOfFeatureWithProperty obsp:ratedVoltage ; .
This Observable Property is expected to be of a Feature with this theme
likely property of feature with theme
# example from the feature-property-relations datagraph obsp:ratedVoltage fsdf:likelyPropertyOfFeatureWithTheme themes:electrical-infrastructure ; .
Feature Of Interest
The thing whose property is being estimated or calculated in the course of an Observation to arrive at a Result or whose property is being manipulated by an Actuator, or which is being sampled or transformed in an act of Sampling
An observable quality (property, characteristic) of a FeatureOfInterest
The height of a tree, the depth of a water body, or the temperature of a surface are examples of observable properties, while the value of a classic car is not (directly) observable but asserted.
used procedure
A relation to link to a re-usable Procedure used in making an Observation, an Actuation, or a Sample, typically through a Sensor, Actuator or Sampler
has feature of interest
A relation between an Observation and the entity whose quality was observed, or between an Actuation and the entity whose property was modified, or between an act of Sampling and the entity that was sampled
For example, in an Observation of the weight of a person, the FeatureOfInterest is the person and the property is its weight.
is feature of interest of
A relation between a FeatureOfInterest and an Observation about it, an Actuation acting on it, or an act of Sampling that sampled it
Observation
Act of carrying out an (Observation) Procedure to estimate or calculate a value of a property of a FeatureOfInterest. Links to a Sensor to describe what made the Observation and how; links to an ObservableProperty to describe what the result is an estimate of, and to a FeatureOfInterest to detail what that property was associated with
The activity of estimating the intensity of an Earthquake using the Mercalli intensity scale is an Observation as is measuring the moment magnitude, i.e., the energy released by said earthquake.
observed property
Relation linking an Observation to the property that was observed. The ObservableProperty should be a property of the FeatureOfInterest (linked by hasFeatureOfInterest) of this Observation
Result
The Result of an Observation, Actuation, or act of Sampling. To store an observation's simple result value one can use the hasSimpleResult property
The value 20 as the height of a certain tree together with the unit, e.g., Meter.
has result
Relation linking an Observation or Actuation or act of Sampling and a Result or Sample
is result of
Relation linking a Result to the Observation or Actuation or act of Sampling that created or caused it
has simple result
The simple value of an Observation or Actuation or act of Sampling
result time
The result time is the instant of time when the Observation, Actuation or Sampling activity was completed
phenomenon time
The time that the Result of an Observation, Actuation or Sampling applies to the FeatureOfInterest. Not necessarily the same as the resultTime. May be an Interval or an Instant, or some other compound TemporalEntity
Collection of observations, typically with one or more property shared by all of its members
Collection of observations
Link to a member within a collection of (observations) or (collections of observations) that share the same value for one or more of the characteristic properties
has member