[RELEASE] SWEET Ontology Suite v3.1.0

Hello All,



The ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee [0] is happy to announce the
immediate release and availability of the next SWEET [1] release. Although
mainly a bug fix release, also better turtle serialization (as source of
all the SWEET ontologies) and automated update (of COR and sweetontology.net
<http://sweetontology.net/>) from the Github repo, are among the changes
associated with this release.



*What is SWEET?*



SWEET is a highly modular ontology suite with ~6000 concepts in ~200
separate ontologies covering Earth system science. You can view the entire
concept space from an ontology editor/tool such as Protege by reading in
the convenience sweetAll.ttl file packaged with every release.
Alternatively, ontologies can be viewed individually. SWEET consists of
nine top-level concepts/ontologies and is considered as a middle-level
ontology; most users add a domain-specific ontology which build off of
these top-level SWEET components. SWEET ontologies are written in W3C
Turtle; the Terse RDF Triple Language and are publicly available under the
Apache License v2.0.



*Download*



You can download SWEET from the official SWEET Github releases page [2],
please make sure to download the release with the 'Latest Release' tag.
Additionally, SWEET is now also available as linked data via the ESIP
Community Ontology Repository [3]. The changes/release report contained
within this release can be viewed at the same Github download location from
which you obtained the release itself.



For further information on SWEET Community and Development please see [4].
This resource can also be used for community discussion as well as
reporting technical issues.



Many thanks to those who have contributed to this release.



Thank you,



Lewis

(On behalf of ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee)



[0] http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Semantic_Technologies

[1] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet

[2] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet/releases

[3] http://cor.esipfed.org/

[4] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet/blob/master/README.md#community

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