SWEET Ontology Suite v3.5.0 released

Dear All,

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The ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee [0] is happy to announce the
immediate release and availability of the Semantic Web for Earth and
Environmental Terminology (SWEET) ontology v3.5.0 [1].

What is SWEET?
SWEET is a highly modular ontology suite with >11000 concepts in 225
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 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 extends these
upper-level SWEET components. SWEET ontologies are written in W3C
Turtle, the Terse RDF Triple Language, and are publicly available under
the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Various ontology
alignments are also packaged with SWEET releases e.g. W3C SOSA/SSN and
W3C DCAT.

What has changed?
The most significant change is that we are adding multiple definitions
from other well known vocabularies to SWEET classes. After a healthy
discussion, captured primarily in [5], results of the voting were in
favor of the enhancement. Adding multiple definitions, where
appropriate, for each class will help identify clear and fuzzy concepts
within the domain, as well as identify areas where structural changes
may be warranted.  It should be noted that all definitions will be added
as annotation properties which will not affect any logical axioms in
place, or in development.

Other highlights include:
-- The license is now CC0 [6] throughout
-- Added UCUM codes for unit prefixes
-- Added all rogue rdfs:comment text from previous versions
-- Added over 5000 mineral classes
-- Compiled results of the SWEET survey [7]

Download
SWEET resources (http://sweetontology.net) are also available as linked
data via the ESIP Community Ontology Repository [3]. The changes/release
report contained within this release is also available at [2].
Additionally, SWEET can be downloaded from the official SWEET Github
releases page [2], please make sure to download the release with the
'Latest Release' tag.

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.

Contributors welcome!
As a community, we rely on the support of all types of contributors; our
SMEs help ensure the accuracy and integrity of SWEET and the more
technically inclined help ensure the resource maintains its efficacy as
well as web accessibility. Please get in touch if you are interested.

Many thanks to all active and past contributors.

Regards,
/Brandon
(on behalf of the ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee)

[0] https://wiki.esipfed.org/Semantic_Technologies
[1] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet/releases/tag/v3.5.0
[2] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet/releases
[3] http://cor.esipfed.org/
[4] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet/blob/master/README.md#community
[5] https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet/issues/211
[6] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
[7] https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20293860.v1


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Brandon Whitehead (he/him)
Senior Researcher -- Environmental Data Science
Manaaki Whenua -- Landcare Research
m: +64 (0)21 177 7217
www.landcareresearch.co.nz

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Received on Thursday, 14 July 2022 22:44:54 UTC