Ontologies

List of useful ontologies

PROV-O - Provenance Ontology

Three classes provide a basis for the rest of PROV-O:

An prov:Entity is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects; entities may be real or imaginary.

An prov:Activity is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities; it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, or generating entities.

An prov: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.

Starting Point properties:

prov:wasGeneratedBy prov:wasDerivedFrom prov:wasAttributedTo prov:startedAtTime prov:used prov:wasInformedBy prov:endedAtTime prov:wasAssociatedWith prov:actedOnBehalfOf

Ontologies and Schemas mentioned in UC3 data sources

INSPIRE for majority of datasets listed in the spreadsheet. This is a profile extention of ISO 19115 standard

CLC Nomenclature mentioned in several datasets

dublin core list of registries of vocabularies

CF conventions - This vocab details climate related variable names with their respective units as well as defining coordinate systems Climate and Forecasting Conventions, for NetCDF files, documentation