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| Definitionskos:definition | This document introduces an extension to the OGC SensorThings data model and discusses the best practices for using such an extension in the context of Citizen Science. The motivation for the introduced extension, referred to as “STAplus,” has been developed during the EC H2020 project Cos4Cloud and is based on requirements from Citizen Science. Whereas the dominant use of the OGC SensorThings data model (and API) can be coined with the use case “single authority provides sensor readings to consumers”, in Citizen Science there are many contributors (citizens) that – together – create the big “picture” with their observations. The introduced extension STAplus supports the model that those observations are owned by (different) users that may express the license for re-use; we call this part of the contribution the ownership concept. In addition to the ownership and license abilities, the introduced extension allows to express explicit relations between observations and to create group(s) of observations to containerize observations that belong together. Relations can be created among any individual observations or observations of a group to support performant Linked Data extraction and semantic queries, e.g., expressed in SPARQL. We believe that the introduced extension is an important contribution towards the realization of the FAIR principles, perhaps not only in Citizen Science, as STAplus strengthens the “I” (Interoperability) through a common data model and API as well as the “R” (Reusability) by allowing to express standards-based queries that may consider licensing conditions, relevant for reuse of other users’ observations. The STAplus Data Model and Business Logic also enriches existing deployments as the extension can be seamlessly added and thereby offer new capabilities to create and manage the “big picture” with multi-user capabilities. This document also illustrates best practices of using STAplus, evaluated with proof-ofconcept deployments based on the implementations by 52°North, Secure Dimensions, and CREAF. |
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| Broaderbroader | Best Practices Document |
| http://purl.org/dc/terms/createdcreated | 2022-09-29 |
| Creatorcreator | Andreas Matheus |
| seeAlsoseeAlso | https://docs.ogc.org/bp/21-068.pdf |
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| Notationnotation | 21-068 |
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