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Linked Sensor Data cube
This document describes linking the ACORN-SAT climate dataset as linked open data using the Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) ontology and RDF Data Cube vocabulary. It presents the ACORN-SAT dataset, motivation for publishing it as linked data, and details how SSN is used to describe sensor deployments and observations while RDF Data Cube structures the data into observations, dimensions and measures. Lessons learned include opportunities to improve vocabularies and link additional climate and environmental datasets.
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- 1. A Linked SensorData Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature dataset Laurent Lefort 5th Semantic Sensor Network Workshop, 12 November 2012 CSIRO ICT CENTRE
- 2. Outline • ACORN-SATdataset • Role of SSN ontology • Role of RDF Data Cube vocabulary • Integration of SSN and RDF Data Cube • Lessons learned • Conclusions A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 2 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 3. The ACORN-SAT dataset • Released by Aus. Bureau of Meteorology (23 March 2012) • Available at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn-sat/ • 112 stations in total - 60 from 1910 to 2011 • Homogenised (adjusted) daily temperatures • Tabular format (1 file per time series/station) A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 3 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 4. The Linked Dataversion of ACORN-SAT • Experimental version of ACORN-SAT data • Available at http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ • Developed for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) by CSIRO in cooperation with the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) • Temperature (homogenised) plus Rainfall (not homogenised) • First version presented at Australian GovHack Day • Alternative to tabular data • Last version, uploaded to LOD cloud • http://thedatahub.org/dataset/acorn-sat A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 4 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 5. Motivation: linked gov.agencies data in Australia • Linked data (and well managed URIs) to build the bridges between the different agencies • Current linked data pilot is one agency (BoM) and one server but applies solutions and schemes already in place in multi-agencies and multi-service providers context (e.g. UK) • Thanks to AGIMO for helping us to set up http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/
- 6. SSN Ontology •SSN-XG report http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/XGR-ssn/ • SSN Ontology http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn • Navigable documentation on wiki auto derived http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/wiki/SSN A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 6 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 7. SSN: deployed systemsand observations Device Skeleton Deployment PlatformSite System ssn:System onPlatform hasSubsystem deploymentProcesPart ssn:DeploymentRelatedProcess hasDeployment ssn:Deployment deployedSystem deployedOnPlatform ssn:Platform attachedSystem ssn:Device ssn:Sensor ssn:SensingDevice observes inDeployment observedBy ssn:Property observedProperty ssn:Observation
- 8. Specific challenges forthe SSN Ontology • ACORN-SAT data derived from multiple stations with complex history • Uses homogenisation algorithm to make adjustments to raw data • “Metadata” used by the algorithm to identify “breakpoints” in time series – Site changes (moves, building or vegetation having an impact on the quality of observation), sensor (and sensor screens) changes, procedure changes (hours of observations) • BoM station numbering system “somewhat confusing over time” • Desire to retain a single site number for upper-air observations at obs sites • Several numbering conventions have been used at one or more locations where an overlap occurs between an old (comparison) and new site: – Old site retains old number, new site opens with new number. – Old site switches to new number for the duration of the comparison, new site takes over old number from the start of its observations. – New site opens under new number then switches to old number after end of comparison. A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 8 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 9. Linked ACORN SATdeployment data with SSN • Data describing the deployment history • Available in ACORN-SAT station catalogue (pdf) • Not available in tabular format distribution • ACORN-SAT composite stations – System composed of one or several BoM stations • BoM (Bureau of Meteorology) stations – System composed of one or several station sharing the same codes • Textual description of significant events • Data describing the detailed conditions of observations • Sensors • Screens • Automatic Weather stations • Procedures e.g. hours of observation A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 9 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 10. Example (Darwin) Timeseries – Weather stations – Sites – (Sensors) Darwin Post Office 014016 (1910-1942) Darwin Airport 014015 (1941-2007 & 2001-now) 2 sites – 1km apart – same code used A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 10 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 11. Deployment phases inDarwin A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 11 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 12. RDF Data cubehttp://purl.org/linked-data/cube • RDF Data Cube: a method to organise linked data in slices • A vocabulary published by the W3C Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group (Working Draft) • Also the method used to publish statistics data and environmental data in Europe e.g. for Bathing Water Quality in UK http://www.epimorphics.com/web/projects/bathing-water-quality • Advantages • Allows multiple views on the same data (similar to OLAP) • Generic approach which supports the links to domain-specific definitions • Useable: • In any browser via Linked Data API (HTML output) • In JavaScript via Linked Data API (JSON output) • In R via SPARQL 12 | A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 13. From: The RDFData Cube Vocabulary W3C Working Draft 05 April 2012 http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/ 13 | A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 14. Data cube, sliceand observation A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 14 | dataset | Laurent Lefort Dimension d7 Dimension d6 Dimension d1 Dimension d2 Dimension d3 Dimension d4 Dimension d5 Measure m1, m2, … Attribute a1, a2, … Cube Slice Observation
- 15. QB: Dataset, Slice,Observation Cube and Slice qb:Slice qb:Dataset slice Cube observation observation qb:Observation subslice
- 16. Data Cube Structure: dimensions, measure, attributes Current Data Cube structure (and URI/API logic) Observation - MinTemperature - MaxTemperature - Rainfall - Booleans for missing data (2) Year (3) Month Day A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 16 | dataset | Laurent Lefort (1) ACORN-SAT Series/System (station) • Stations/time series • Year • Month • All linking to observations
- 17. Slices and URIscheme A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 17 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 18. Coupling SSN andRDF Data Cube A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 18 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 19. Device Skeleton acorn-system Cube observation observation structure qb:DataStructureDefinition component qb:ComponentSpecification deployedSystem deploymentProcesPart bom-station acorn-deploy hasSubsystem bom-station:System acorn-site raindist locatedIn parentADM1 parentFeature, parentCountry parentADM1, parentADM2 bom-station:Station deployedOnPlatform acorn-site:Site A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 19 | dataset | Laurent Lefort acorn-deploy:Deployment deployment- ProcessPart currentSite acorn-system:System concept etcddi etcddi:xxx acorn-series:xxx acorn-series acorn-series:TimeSeries acorn-deploy:StandaloneOperation acorn-sat:Observation acorn-sat observation acorn-deploy:PreDeployment acorn-deploy:PostDeployment observedBy acorn-sat:xxx time:Interval (Instant) Intervals OWL Time interval:CalendarInterval (Instant) raindist:RainfallDistrict rainstate rainstate:RainfallState gn:Feature geonames Deployment System PlatformSite ssn:System onPlatform hasSubsystem hasDeployment ssn:DeploymentRelatedProcess ssn:Deployment ssn:Platform deployedOnPlatform attachedSystem ssn:Device ssn:Sensor ssn:SensingDevice observes inDeployment observedBy ssn:Property observedProperty Cube and Slice qb:Slice qb:Dataset slice qb:Observation qb:ComponentProperty DSD componentProperty Dataset void:Dataset Concepts skos:Concept ssn:Observation
- 20. Access to datawith Elda via http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ ssn:hasSubSystem ssn:hasDeployment ssn:observedBy ssn:deploymentProcessPart A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 20 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 21. Mashups • Displaythe station locations and their average temperature readings on a map • http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/mashup/drilldown • Select a Date range for climate readings for a given location • http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/mashup A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 21 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 22. Lessons learned •Flexible URI scheme • ELDA-friendly, UK-style: using nested list endpoints and item endpoints – http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/data/acorn/climate/slice/station – http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/data/acorn/climate/slice/station/014015 • Extra slice(s) easy to add to allow multiple access to the same observations • RDF Data Cube vocabulary (QB) • Some clarifications needed for qb:structure, qb:sliceKey, qb:sliceStructure, qb:component and qb:componentAttachment properties e.g. through the publication of validation rules • Coupling of SSN ontology and RDF Data Cube vocabulary • Different ecosystems (OWL vs. RDF/RDFS) – OK for RDF Data Cube, not OK for other reused vocabularies e.g. UK Intervals (Jena Eyeball used for validation) • Observed properties are classes in the SSN ontology and properties in the RDF Data Cube – Possibility to reuse/extend the qb:concept properties defined to manage references to skos:Concept in QB A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 22 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 23. Conclusions • Approachis applicable to all climate time series • Several climate-specific issues not addressed • Transparency/reproducibility of homogenisation process – Require raw data plus extra (meta)data (sensors, screen types, sensors exposure, “qualified” observed properties during a specific observation interval), plus data used/generated during homogenisation algorithm (ACORN-SAT uses different values for different value distribution percentiles) – More ontology work needed (compared to SSN) on homogenisation algorithms parameters, types of breakpoints and types of adjustment lookup table • Opportunities to link to other datasets (Australia, World) • Geo-features (e.g. GeoNames - done) for weather station sites, districts • Other climate data e.g. regional and world climate data archives, cyclone tracks (not yet available as linked data) • Other environmental data (not yet available as linked data) A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 23 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 24. Thank you Division/UnitName Laurent Lefort Ontologist t +61 2 9123 4567 e laurent.lefort@csiro.au w ict.csiro.au CSIRO ICT CENTRE
- 25. Images credits •Blair Trewin The ACORN-SAT station at Butlers Gorge in central Tasmania (surfacetemperatures.blogspot.com.au ) A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 25 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 26. Reused ontologies OntologyShort Description URL DOLCE Ultra Lite (DUL) A lightweight foundational ontology for modeling either physical or social contexts http://www.loa-cnr. it/ontologies/DUL.owl Semantic Sensor Network An ontology for the description of sensors and observations, and related concepts. http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn RDF Data Cube A vocabulary for the publication of multi-dimensional data as linked data http://purl.org/linked-data/cube OWL Time An ontology of temporal concepts http://www.w3.org/2006/time Intervals A vocabulary (and URI scheme) for the definition of instants and intervals. http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/in tervals WGS84_Pos A vocabulary for representing latitude, longitude and altitude information in the WGS84 geodetic reference datum http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/w gs84_pos GeoNames An ontology for the description of geographical features, their characteristics and relationships http://www.geonames.org/ontolog y/ontology_v3.01.rdf VoID (Vocabula-ry of Interlinked Datasets) A vocabulary for expressing metadata about RDF datasets http://vocab.deri.ie/void A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 26 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 27. Developed ontologies OntologyShort Description URL ETCCDI Indicators defined by the joint CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 27 | dataset | Laurent Lefort http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/etccdi Rainfall districts and states Geographical areas defined as part of the Bureau's numbering system for observation sites http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ def/stations/raindist …/rainstate BoM Station Definition for the weather stations registered in the Bureau’s Weather Station Directory http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ def/stations/station Surface Air Temperature ACORN-SAT observation (temperature, rainfall) for one day http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ def/acorn/sat Time Series Time series data defined as data cube slices (aggregated at different levels) http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ def/acorn/time-series ACORN-SAT deployment Phases and sub-phases recorded in the ACORN-SAT documentation pack http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ def/acorn/deployment ACORN-SAT system The sensing asset used for a deployment phases (or sub-phase) http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ def/acorn/system ACORN-SAT site The site used for a deployment phase (or sub-phase) http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/ def/acorn/site
- 28. RDF Data Cube(qb:ComponentAttachement) A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 28 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
- 29. Reference to skos:Concept A Linked Sensor Data Cube for a 100 year homogenised daily temperature 29 | dataset | Laurent Lefort
Editor's Notes
- #4 The ACORN-SAT dataset replaces the previously released long term climate time series datasets released by the bureau (eg High Quality dataset)
- #7 OWL2 ontology, SRIQ(D) 41 concepts & 39 object properties, organised into ten conceptual modules 117 concepts and 142 object properties in total, including DUL Aligned to DOLCE UltraLite
- #13 Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/
- #14 Need rdfs:Class, qb:Atachable and
- #21 Similar to UK Bathing Water project