Ordnance Survey Ontologies

The goal of Ordnance Survey’s GeoSemantics team is to provide both an explicit representation of our organisation's knowledge and a set of increasingly automated operations that allow different datasets to be combined together, by representing them in a semantically meaningful way via ontologies. Ontologies contain a set of knowledge about a domain, such as topography.

We are in the process of building a Topographic ontology and the first step in this process was the creation of a hydrology ontology. Ontology modules that support this Hydrology ontology, and can be reused in other domain ontologies, are also listed here. The Administrative Geography ontology also includes RDF triple data.

Conceptual Ontologies

Administrative Geography

Hydrology 0.1

Conceptual Ontology Modules

Foreign Language Relations

Mereology

Network Relations

Spatial Relations

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The conceptual ontology is the human readable ontology, (written in the Ordnance Survey "Rabbit" controlled English language) while the OWL-DL ontology is the logical, machine readable version. Each Ordnance Survey ontology has been created according to Ordnance Survey's Conceptual ontology authoring method [link coming soon] and Logical ontology authoring method [link coming soon].

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