The doce water quality ontology
This ontology enables the sharing of water quality data. Based partly on P. M. C. Campos, “Designing a Network of Reference Ontologies for the Integration of Water Quality Data,” Master Thesis, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2019. See <https://nemo.inf.ufes.br/en/projetos/integradoce/> for background on the project and publications. The doce water quality ontology specializes the gUFO implementation of UFO. See <http://purl.org/nemo/doc/gufo> for reference documentation. Cite this work as: J. P. A. Almeida, "The doce water quality ontology", http://purl.org/nemo/doc/doce For the source repository, see: <https://github.com/nemo-ufes/doce>
Identifies a doce:ResearchActivity which the doce:ResearchActivityPrincipal delegated.
delegated
Identifies a doce:Unit with which the doce:Measurement is expressed.
expressedIn
Identifies a doce:Unit which is applicable to the doce:QualityKind. Corresponds to http://qudt.org/schema/qudt/applicableUnit
hasApplicableUnit
Identifies the doce:ChemicalEntityType which is associated to the doce:ChemicalEntityConcentrationQualityKind. For example, "Arsenic" (a doce:ChemicalEntityType) is associated with "ArsenicConcentration" (a doce:ChemicalEntityConcentrationQualityKind).
hasAssociatedChemicalEntityType
Identifies a doce:GeographicPoint for a doce:GeographicallyLocatedEntity.
locatedIn
Identifies the gufo:Object measured in a doce:Measurement.
measured
Identifies the doce:QualityKind that characterizes the measurement.
measuredQualityKind
Identifies a doce:ResearchActivity which the doce:ResearchActivityAgent performed.
performed
Identifies the doce:SampleEntity which the doce:Sample represents.
represents
Identifies a doce:ResearchActivity in which the doce:ResearchActivityProcedure was adopted.
wasAdoptedIn
Identifies a doce:Measurement in which the gufo:Object was measured.
wasMeasuredIn
Identifies a doce:ResearchActivity in which the doce:Device was used.
wasUsedIn
Latitude expressed in decimal degrees using datum WGS84. In the doce ontology, used to express the latitude of a GeographicPoint with xsd:float values.
Longitude expressed in decimal degrees using datum WGS84. In the doce ontology, used to express the longitude of a GeographicPoint with xsd:float values.
A non-living non-biological doce:MaterialEntity. "In biology and ecology, abiotic components or abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiotic_component
AbioticEntity
A gufo:Object capable of performing actions, typically a person or an organization.
Agent
AmmoniacalNitrogenConcentration
A portion of matter that consists mostly in water. (Not necessarily a gufo:Quantity, since the identity of a gufo:Quantity is tied to its matter, and amounts of water in this ontology may lose parts while keeping their identity.)
AmountOfWater
An artificial doce:GeographicFeature. Examples include "Colatina", the "Candonga Hydroelectric Power Plant Reservoir".
ArtificialGeographicFeature
BiologicalOxygenDemand
A doce:WaterQualityKind for biological qualities in water quality management. Examples include "Toxicity", "Concentration of cyanobacteria".
BiologicalQualityKind
A doce:MaterialEntity that is alive or that originates from living organisms. "Biotic components, or biotic factors, can be described as any living component that affects another organism or shapes the ecosystem. This includes both animals that consume other organisms within their ecosystem, and the organism that is being consumed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_component
BioticEntity
A doce:PhysicalChemicalQualityKind concerning the concentration of chemical entities in water. Examples include "ArsenicConcentration", "DissolvedOxygenConcentration".
ChemicalEntityConcentrationQualityKind
A gufo:Type of chemical entity. Examples include types of atoms, types of molecular entities, types of chemical substances. Corresponds to <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_24431> See Chemical Entities of Biological Interest <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/chebi>
ChemicalEntityType
ChlorophyllAConcentration
Corresponds to http://qudt.org/vocab/quantitykind/Concentration
Concentration
CyanideConcentration
A gufo:Object that participates in a doce:ResearchActivity as an instrument.
Device
DissolvedAluminiumConcentration
DissolvedAntimonyConcentration
DissolvedArsenicConcentration
DissolvedBariumConcentration
DissolvedBerylliumConcentration
DissolvedBoronConcentration
DissolvedCadmiumConcentration
DissolvedCalciumConcentration
DissolvedChromiumConcentration
DissolvedCobaltConcentration
DissolvedCopperConcentration
DissolvedIronConcentration
DissolvedLeadConcentration
DissolvedMagnesiumConcentration
DissolvedManganeseConcentration
DissolvedMercuryConcentration
DissolvedMolybdenumConcentration
DissolvedNickelConcentration
DissolvedOrganicCarbonConcentration
DissolvedOxygenConcentration
DissolvedPhosphorusConcentration
DissolvedPotassiumConcentration
DissolvedSeleniumConcentration
DissolvedSilicaConcentration
DissolvedSilverConcentration
DissolvedSodiumConcentration
DissolvedVanadiumConcentration
DissolvedZincConcentration
FerricIronIIIConcentration
FerrousIronIIConcentration
FlourideConcentration
FlowRate
A gufo:Object which is a natural or artificial feature of the Earth. Examples include the "Doce river", the "Juparanã lake", the city of "Colatina".
GeographicFeature
A <latitude, longitude> coordinate tuple in the WGS84 Coordinate Reference System. Used to conceive of a (0-dimensional) location relative to the Earth's surface. Identity of a point is given by its latitude and longitude components. See wgs:lat and wgs:long data properties. Corresponds to <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#Point> and "coordinate tuple" in ISO 19111:2007.
GeographicPoint
A gufo:ConcreteIndividual that is located in the Earth. A doce:GeographicallyLocatedEntity can be a gufo:Endurant or a gufo:Event. Examples include a surface water feature (such as the "Doce river"), a city (such as "Mariana"), a sampling event (the measurement of transparency of a river in a particular date and time). See doce:locatedIn to related a doce:GeographicallyLocatedEntity with one or more doce:GeographicPoint.
GeographicallyLocatedEntity
Hardness_CalciumCarbonateEquivalence
HydrogenSulfideConcentration
A doce:NaturalGeographicFeature that is composed mainly of a body of water, such as an ocean, a sea, a lake, a river, an underground aquifer.
HydrographicFeature
KjeldahlMethodNitrogenConcentration
A natural doce:SurfaceWaterFeature "where surface-water runoff and groundwater seepage have accumulated in a low spot, relative to the surrounding countryside." For example, the "Juparanã Lake". See https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/lakes-and-reservoirs?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
Lake
A physical gufo:Object whose qualities are ammenable to measurement.
MaterialEntity
A doce:ResearchActivity whose purpose is to ascertain the value of a quality of a researcheable entity of interest (a gufo:Object). For the relation between the gufo:Object subject to measurement and a doce:Measurement, see the doce:wasMeasuredIn object property. For the relation between a doce:Measurement and the doce:QualityKind measured, see the doce:measuredQualityKind object property. A doce:Measurement may be in-situ or ex-situ. For an in-situ doce:Measurement, the gufo:Object measured is often a doce:GeographicFeature, such as a river of a lake. Note that for an in-situ measurement of a doce:MetereologicalQuality, no specific gufo:Object is indicated. For ex-situ measurements, the doce:ResearchableEntity is a doce:Sample that doce:represents a doce:GeographicFeature. For the relation between the doce:Sample and the sampled gufo:Object see the doce:represents object property.
Measurement
MetalConcentration
MetalloidConcentration
A gufo:Quality that concerns the weather, i.e., the state of the atmosphere. For example "AmbientTemperature" concerns the degree to which the atmosphere is hot or cold, "RelativeHumidity" concerns the degree to which the atmosphere is wet or dry.
MetereologicalQuality
A doce:QualityKind for metereological qualities. Examples include "RelativeHumidity", "AtmosphericPressure", "Precipitation".
MetereologicalQualityKind
A natural doce:GeographicFeature. Examples include the "Amazon River", the "Juparanã Lake", the "Jungfrau Mountain".
NaturalGeographicFeature
NonMetalConcentration
A gufo:Quality that concerns a physical or chemical trait of a doce:MaterialEntity.
PhysicalChemicalQuality
A doce:WaterQualityKind for physical chemical qualities in water quality management. Examples include "Temperature", "ArsenicConcentration", "Alkalinity".
PhysicalChemicalQualityKind
A doce:ResearchActivity whose purpose is to prepare a sample for further analysis. For example, consider activities such as "extractions" in the preparation for measuring the concentration of metals in a water sample. In many cases, preparation is not explicitly modeled, and the preparation activities are encompassed in measurement. When preparation is explicit, a doce:Preparation terminates an original doce:Sample, creating a newly prepared doce:Sample. (See gufo:wasTerminatedIn and gufo:wasCreatedIn.) Explicit preparation creates the opportunity to track the agents involved in handling preparation, the procedures and devices employed.
Preparation
A gufo:Event which is conducted by one or more agents in order to investigate one or more aspects of a phenomenon of interest. A doce:ResearchActivity is a gufo:Event, and as such, can be given temporal boundaries (see the gufo:hasBeginPointInXSDDate, gufo:hasBeginPointInXSDDateTimeStamp, gufo:hasEndPointInXSDDate and gufo:hasEndPointInXSDDateTimeStamp data properties). As a doce:GeographicallyLocatedEntity, it can be located in space (see the doce:locatedIn object property). A doce:ResearchActivity is performed by a doce:ResearchActivityAgent (see the doce:performed object property). A doce:ResearchActivity is delegated by a doce:ResearchActivityPrincipal (see the doce:delegated object property). A doce:ResearchActivityProcedure is adopted in a doce:ResearchActivityAgent (see the doce:wasAdoptedIn object property). A doce:Device is used in a doce:ResearchActivityAgent (see the doce:wasUsedIn object property).
ResearchActivity
A doce:Agent that performs a doce:ResearchActivity.
ResearchActivityAgent
A doce:Agent that delegates the performance of a doce:ResearchActivity.
ResearchActivityPrincipal
A procedure adopted in a doce:ResearchActivity. See doce:wasAdoptedIn for the relation between the doce:ResearchActivityProcedure and the doce:ResearchActivity in which it was adopted.
ResearchActivityProcedure
An artificial doce:SurfaceWaterFeature where water accumulates by design to control the flow distribution of surface water. For example, the "Candonga Hydroelectric Power Plant Reservoir".
Reservoir
A natural doce:SurfaceWaterFeature in which water runs due to gravity. For example, the "Carmo river", the "Doce river".
River
A doce:MaterialEntity that doce:represents a doce:SampledEntity. See doce:Sampling for the doce:ResearchActivity that creates a sample.
Sample
A doce:MaterialEntity that is subject to doce:Sampling. See doce:represents for the relation between a doce:Sample and the doce:SampledEntity it represents.
SampledEntity
A doce:ResearchActivity whose purpose is to create a doce:Sample that represents a doce:SampledEntity. The created Sample is typically subject to doce:Measurement later (possibly also through an explicit doce:Preparation activity.)
Sampling
SolidsConcentration
A doce:HydrographicFeature consisting of water on the surface of continents such as in a river or a lake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_water
SurfaceWaterFeature
A doce:WaterSample from a doce:SurfaceWaterFeature.
SurfaceWaterSample
A doce:Unit partitions a quality structure into parts of equal magnitude. Examples include "Meter", "Kilogram", "Meter per Second". Corresponds to qudt:Unit. See: http://qudt.org/2.1/schema/qudt#Unit for definition. See also "QUDT All Units" http://www.qudt.org/doc/2020/04/DOC_VOCAB-UNITS-ALL-v2.1.html for a catalog of units (namespace http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/)
Unit
A doce:QualityKind for water quality management. Examples include "ArsenicConcentration", "TotalDissolvedSolids", "Conductivity", "Toxicity".
WaterQualityKind
A doce:Sample that consists mostly in water. A doce:WaterSample represents a doce:SampledEntity (see the doce:represents object property), typically a doce:HydrographicFeature such as a doce:Lake or doce:River.
WaterSample
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:2211:ed-1:v1:en https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escala_de_platina-cobalto "Para facilitar a expressão dos resultados é considerada uma unidade arbitrária, em geral designada por "unidade Hazen" ou "uH", que grosso modo corresponde ao incremento de cor causado pela adição de 1 ppm (1 mg/L) de Pt, como ião cloroplatinato, à solução aquosa padrão." http://registry2.it.csiro.au/def/unit/_Hazen
HazenUnit
Most Probable Number per deciliter. In Portuguese "NMP/100ml": https://cetesb.sp.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Para-enviar-ao-PCSM_-NTC-L5.202_5ªed-_dez.-2018.pdf See: https://www.idexx.com/en/blogs/idexx-water-testing-solutions/what-s-the-difference-between-mpn-and-cfu/ and http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/CFU (for an absolute count)
MPN-PER-DeciL
See http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/M3-PER-SEC
See http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/MicroGM-PER-L
See http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/MicroS-PER-CentiM
See http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/MilliGM-PER-L
See http://registry2.it.csiro.au/def/unit/pH, http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/PH
AmbientTemperature
Conductivity
MethylmercuryConcentration
NitrateConcentration
NitriteConcentration
OrganicNitrogenConcentration
OxygenSaturation
PheophytinConcentration
PhosphateConcentration
PolyphosphateConcentration
A gufo:Kind whose instances are qualities. Instances of doce:QualityKind should specialize gufo:Quality. Examples include "Volume", "Mass", "ElectricalConductivity". For the purposes of measurements, corresponds to qudt:QuantityKind See: http://qudt.org/2.1/schema/qudt#QuantityKind
QualityKind
Rainfall
RedoxPotential
RelativeHumidity
Salinity
SamplingDepth
SecchiDiskTransparency
SettleableSolids
SulphateConcentration
Temperature
TotalAlkalinityAsCaCO3
TotalAluminiumConcentration
TotalAntimonyConcentration
TotalArsenicConcentration
TotalBariumConcentration
TotalBerylliumConcentration
TotalBoronConcentration
TotalCadmiumConcentration
TotalCalciumConcentration
TotalChlorideConcentration
TotalChromiumConcentration
TotalCobaltConcentration
TotalCopperConcentration
TotalDissolvedSolids
TotalIronConcentration
TotalLeadConcentration
TotalMagnesiumConcentration
TotalManganeseConcentration
TotalMercuryConcentration
TotalMolybdenumConcentration
TotalNickelConcentration
TotalOrganicCarbonConcentration
TotalPhosphorousConcentration
TotalSeleniumConcentration
TotalSilverConcentration
TotalSodiumConcentration
TotalSolids
TotalSulfideConcentration
TotalSuspendedSolids
TotalVanadiumConcentration
TotalZincConcentration
TrueColor
Turbidity
VolumePerUnitTime