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less Body Area Networks (WBANs), agriculture, smart energy, water management,
waste management, environment, logistics, manufacturing, weather, home, tourism,
healthcare, etc. The healthcare domain is the main exception being familiar with
semantic web best practices, but it is not the case for other communities such as
the smart home. LOV4IoT aims to encourage the reuse of existing IoT ontologies.
LOV4IoT extends Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) [4] because multiple ontologies
that have been designed do not meet the best practices criteria preconized by the LOV
community.
The experience acquired when referencing new ontologies on the LOV4IoT ontology catalog has been used to create the PerfectO ontology improvement methodology, explained in Sect. 4. Only a subset of 221 ontologies is available online that are
integrated with PerfectO. Most of the ontologies after improvements will become
more interoperable to be referenced in the LOV catalog. LOV4IoT is an ontology
catalog incubator for those ontologies developed by multi-domain communities.
2.2 Disseminating Tools for Ontology Quality
There is a real need for the proper tools to improve ontology quality, guide, and
educate ontology designers/engineers. A state of the art analysis (Sect. 3) for best
practices, quality, and evaluation of ontologies has been done to fill this gap. Taking
inspiration from the Linked Data blog [87], we innovatively disseminate state of
the art: a website which encourages semantic interoperability by classifying and
referencing reusable tools that can assist the improvement of ontologies.
2.2.1 Example for Dissemination and Ontology Quality
Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT Testbeds and Applications (FIESTA-IoT)
1 is
an H2020 EU project focusing on IoT semantic interoperability. To integrate new
testbeds (e.g., smart cities), a set of practices needs to be followed to semantically
annotate and link the data, deduce new knowledge from data, and unify models,
services, and applications. FIESTA-IoT ontology [16], aims to integrate a set of IoTrelated ontologies that have been studied: 19 ontologies for IoT, 28 ontologies for
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), 8 ontologies for the Web of Things (WoT), and 16
ontologies for smart cities. Our goal was to design a unified IoT ontology by reusing
well-designed and most common ontologies. Furthermore, the FIESTA-IoT dataset
validation tool compliant with the FIESTA-IoT ontology has been implemented [17]
to check interoperability among semantic datasets. When IoT-related ontologies have
been found (e.g., reading scientific publications), we have suggested the ontology
URLs to the LOV ontology catalog. We have learned from the LOV community
(through email exchanges) that the required practices are not followed most of the
1 http://fiesta-iot.eu/.
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less Body Area Networks (WBANs), agriculture, smart energy, water management,
waste management, environment, logistics, manufacturing, weather, home, tourism,
healthcare, etc. The healthcare domain is the main exception being familiar with
semantic web best practices, but it is not the case for other communities such as
the smart home. LOV4IoT aims to encourage the reuse of existing IoT ontologies.
LOV4IoT extends Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) [4] because multiple ontologies
that have been designed do not meet the best practices criteria preconized by the LOV
community.
The experience acquired when referencing new ontologies on the LOV4IoT ontology catalog has been used to create the PerfectO ontology improvement methodology, explained in Sect. 4. Only a subset of 221 ontologies is available online that are
integrated with PerfectO. Most of the ontologies after improvements will become
more interoperable to be referenced in the LOV catalog. LOV4IoT is an ontology
catalog incubator for those ontologies developed by multi-domain communities.
2.2 Disseminating Tools for Ontology Quality
There is a real need for the proper tools to improve ontology quality, guide, and
educate ontology designers/engineers. A state of the art analysis (Sect. 3) for best
practices, quality, and evaluation of ontologies has been done to fill this gap. Taking
inspiration from the Linked Data blog [87], we innovatively disseminate state of
the art: a website which encourages semantic interoperability by classifying and
referencing reusable tools that can assist the improvement of ontologies.
2.2.1 Example for Dissemination and Ontology Quality
Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT Testbeds and Applications (FIESTA-IoT)
1 is
an H2020 EU project focusing on IoT semantic interoperability. To integrate new
testbeds (e.g., smart cities), a set of practices needs to be followed to semantically
annotate and link the data, deduce new knowledge from data, and unify models,
services, and applications. FIESTA-IoT ontology [16], aims to integrate a set of IoTrelated ontologies that have been studied: 19 ontologies for IoT, 28 ontologies for
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), 8 ontologies for the Web of Things (WoT), and 16
ontologies for smart cities. Our goal was to design a unified IoT ontology by reusing
well-designed and most common ontologies. Furthermore, the FIESTA-IoT dataset
validation tool compliant with the FIESTA-IoT ontology has been implemented [17]
to check interoperability among semantic datasets. When IoT-related ontologies have
been found (e.g., reading scientific publications), we have suggested the ontology
URLs to the LOV ontology catalog. We have learned from the LOV community
(through email exchanges) that the required practices are not followed most of the
1 http://fiesta-iot.eu/.