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WOD to ICES platforms

Semantic interoperability

World Ocean Database (WOD) terms (unpublished) mappings to NVS Case Study Infobox

  • Author: Alexandra Kokkinaki (@alko-k)
  • Last updated: 2025-06-18
  • Mapping Type: Mapping Type
  • Status of this case study: Status

Map labels (string) of platform (mainly ship) names appearing in metadata documents from the World Ocean Database to ICES shipcodes in the NVS C17 vocabulary.

Domain

Marine Domain

Use case categories

  • Semantic interoperability (shared understanding of data across multiple systems)

Purpose of the mapping

Mapping is used to help filter out duplicates when accessing data from multiple sources and enable aggregators to rely on a unique identifier for identical instances of platforms across research infrastructures and datasets.

Type of mapped resources

Source vocabulary is an unpublished list of literal strings extracted from the WOD, which is mapped to a SKOS concepts in a vocabulary hosted by NERC Vocabulary Server.

None (yet)

Tools used for creating the mapping

The semantic analyser and manual work on spreadsheets.

Type of mapping relations

  • owl:sameAs

One-to-one mappings between literal and vocabulary concepts.

Examples (samples) of different types of mapping implementations

@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix orcid: <https://orcid.org/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix pav: <http://purl.org/pav/> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix semapv: <https://w3id.org/semapv/vocab/> .
@prefix sssom: <https://w3id.org/sssom/> .
@prefix vocab: <http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C17/current/> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<http://sssom.invalid/e021ce83-b8fd-450d-b479-b3b9233e3427> a sssom:MappingSet;
  dcterms:license "https://w3id.org/sssom/license/all-rights-reserved"^^xsd:anyURI;
  sssom:mappings <http://sssom.invalid/record/0000>, <http://sssom.invalid/record/0001>,
    <http://sssom.invalid/record/0002>, <http://sssom.invalid/record/0003>;
  sssom:sssom_version sssom:version1.1 .

<http://sssom.invalid/record/0000> a owl:Axiom;
  dcterms:creator orcid:0000-0000-0000-0000;
  pav:authoredOn "2025-06-18"^^xsd:date;
  owl:annotatedProperty owl:sameAs;
  owl:annotatedTarget vocab:31O9;
  sssom:mapping_justification semapv:ManualMappingCuration;
  sssom:subject_label "ABBOT";
  sssom:subject_type rdfs:Literal .

<http://sssom.invalid/record/0001> a owl:Axiom;
  dcterms:creator orcid:0000-0000-0000-0000;
  pav:authoredOn "2025-06-18"^^xsd:date;
  owl:annotatedProperty owl:sameAs;
  owl:annotatedTarget vocab:74AQ;
  sssom:mapping_justification semapv:ManualMappingCuration;
  sssom:subject_label "ACT 4 (Cont.s;c.s.GOVL;built 1971;ren-d MELBOURNE STAR c.s.C6JY6 1992;IMO7108162";
  sssom:subject_type rdfs:Literal .

<http://sssom.invalid/record/0002> a owl:Axiom;
  dcterms:creator orcid:0000-0000-0000-0000;
  pav:authoredOn "2025-06-18"^^xsd:date;
  owl:annotatedProperty owl:sameAs;
  owl:annotatedTarget vocab:SADD;
  sssom:mapping_justification semapv:ManualMappingCuration;
  sssom:subject_label "ADDIRIYAH";
  sssom:subject_type rdfs:Literal .

<http://sssom.invalid/record/0003> a owl:Axiom;
  dcterms:creator orcid:0000-0000-0000-0000;
  pav:authoredOn "2025-06-18"^^xsd:date;
  owl:annotatedProperty owl:sameAs;
  owl:annotatedTarget vocab:36AE;
  sssom:mapping_justification semapv:ManualMappingCuration;
  sssom:subject_label "AEGAEO (R/V;call sign SXYY;built 12.1985;ex.AEGAIO 10.1994;IMO8412429)";
  sssom:subject_type rdfs:Literal .