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| Definitionskos:definition | The OGC SensorThings API Extension: STAplus 1.0 Standard specifies a backwards-compatible extension to the OGC Standard SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing and Sensing 1.1 data model. The motivation for specifying this STAplus extension is based on requirements from the Citizen Science community. The dominant use for the OGC SensorThings API data model and API can be coined with the use case “single authority provides sensor readings to consumers.” However, in Citizen Science there are many contributors (citizens) who – together – create the big picture with their observations. The STAplus extension is designed to support a model in which observations are owned by different users. This results in requirements for the ownership concept. In addition to the ownership, users may express a license for ensuring proper re-use of their observations. The STAplus extension also supports expressing explicit relations between observations as well as between observations and external resources. Relations can enrich observations to enable future extensions supporting Linked Data, RDF and SPARQL. Observation group(s) allow the grouping of observations that belong together. The STAplus extension is believed to be an important contribution towards the realization of the FAIR principles as STAplus strengthens the “I” (Interoperability) through a common data model and API as well as the “R” (Re-usability) by allowing expressing standards-based queries that may consider licensing conditions which is relevant for reuse of other users’ observations. The STAplus Data Model and Business Logic also enriches existing deployments as the extension can be seamlessly added and thereby offers new capabilities to create and manage the “big picture” with multi-user capabilities. The key work for crafting this OGC Standard was undertaken in the Co-designed Citizen Observatories Services for the EOS-Cloud (Cos4Cloud) project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and the Enhancing Citizen Observatories for healthy, sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities (CitiObs) project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program. Testing of this extension was done with data from the Framework biodiversity project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. |
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| Broaderbroader | Implementation Standard |
| http://purl.org/dc/terms/createdcreated | 2023-09-23 |
| Creatorcreator | Andreas Matheus |
| seeAlsoseeAlso | https://docs.ogc.org/is/22-022r1/22-022r1.html |
| Statusstatus | valid |
| Notationnotation | 22-022r1 |
| Alternative LabelaltLabel | 22-022r1 |
| OGC SensorThings API Extension: STAplus 1.0 | |
| OGC document typedoctype | Implementation Standard |