Open Information Linking for Environmental science research infrastructures (OIL-E)

OIL-E current version

Open Information Linking for Environmental science research infrastructures (OIL-E) is intended to provide a framework for semantic linking between different RI standards and vocabularies.

Using the archetypes of the ENVRI Reference Model to produce an upper ontology for RI specifications, OIL-E will provide a linking model for describing the overlaps between the different metadata schemes used by RIs to describe their resources, as well as the semantic mappings used to convert between schemes.

Using OIL-E, the ENVRIplus project will build a knowledge base describing the semantic landscape of environmental science RIs in Europe, capturing information about metadata schemes, ontologies, thesauri and other controlled vocabularies used by RIs and helping to navigate the semantic bottlenecks facing the establishment of an open science commons in Europe and beyond.

These are the current OIL-E ontologies:

oil-base.owl The base definitions needed to describe the reference model, consisting of generic concepts used in the construction of reference model archetypes. 2017/September.
envri-rm.owl The set of archetypes defined by the reference model, being the object and process classes considered to be common in environmental science research infrastructures as described across the different reference model views. 2017/September.
rm-correspondences.owl A proposed extension to the reference model, describing (some) correspondences between objects and processes defined in the reference model. The expectation is that once formally added to the reference model, the (revised) content of this ontology will be integrated into the next version of envri-rm.owl. 2017/September.

Deprecated links

Links are provided for previous iterations of OIL-E ontologies, for the purposes of backward compatibility and migration.

OIL-E version 2.1

An earlier version of the current OIL-E ontologies with different naming conventions.

rm-core.owl Base definitions needed to describe the reference model, consisting of generic concepts used in the construction of reference model archetypes. 2017/March.
rm-archetypes.owl The set of archetypes defined by the reference model, being the object and process classes considered to be common in environmental science research infrastructures as described across the different reference model views. 2017/March.

OIL-E version 1.6

The OIL-E ontologies as of the end of the FP7 ENVRI project (2014).

Odp.6.owl Version 6 of the ODP ontology, developed by the University of Amsterdam accumulating inputs from the Austrian Environment Agency.
Envri_rm.6.owl Version 6 of the ENVRI ontology, developed by the University of Amsterdam accumulating inputs from the Austrian Environment Agency.

Resource description schema

Older archived ontology sources:

Content (ontology for the data in CineGrid).
Service (CineGrid description language, v1 including NSI and v2 including Openflow).