Re: Vocabulary for weather data logging?

Hi Nick,

You may find useful the work that we have done at http://aemet.linkeddata.es/ where we are reusing the w3c ssn ontology that was referred to before. It's in Spanish partially so if you need help let me know.

Oscar

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Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Nick,
>
>I recently put together
>
>http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/
>
>I used http://purl.org/ns/meteo# for most of the modelling, though you
>might need different vocabulary for observations rather than
>forecasts.
>
>I also created some new terms here:
>
>https://github.com/kwijibo/metoffice.dataincubator.org/blob/master/metoffice.vocab.ttl
>
>You can get the latest forecast for a metoffice forecast location as
>turtle by going to:
>
>http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/areas/{area_code}/{place_code}/forecast-channel
>eg:
>http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/areas/os/lerwick/forecast-channel
>
>FWIW, I modelled temperatures as resources, with a meteo:celcius
>property. I think Sean Palmer (meteo's author)
> was doing the modelling like that, and Toby Inkster also recommended
>that modelling to me, eg:
>
><http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/temperatures/celcius/13>
> meteo:celsius 13 ;
> meteo:farenheit 55.4 ;
> .
>
>I also put up http://purl.org/net/compass#  for wind directions etc,
>which might be useful.
>
>I'd be interested in collaborating to get our data well linked and
>interoperable (if it talks about some of the same places and things).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Keith
>
>ps: I have no indepth knowledge about weather, so any corrections on
>modelling, spelling, and other basic assumptions are welcome.
>
>
>On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Nicholas Humfrey <njh@aelius.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am thinking of doing some weather data logging as RDF. Is there an existing vocabulary for logging temperature, pressure, wind speed etc ?
>>
>> I guess that the Event Ontology would be a good starting point.
>> http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
>>
>> On a related note, how wrong is it to encode the unit of measurement (eg Centigrade) as a datatype?
>>
>>
>> nick.
>>
>>
>>
>

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