The WildLife Monitoring Ontology
type: Ontology
version IRI: wlmo-0.1
creator: Alexander Wolodkin (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-8750)
creator: Claus Weiland (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0351-6523)
creator: Jonas Grieb (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-1722)
creator: Martin Jansen
creator: Maya Beukes
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
description: The ontology developed for representing wildlife monitoring capture events, the setup within which they were observed and their results.
version info: 0.1

geo coordinates are blurred
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Class
  union of: SensorSetup
  union of: StationSetup
comment: A flag when set true indicates that the object's geocoordinates have been blurred in order to protect sensitive biogeodiversity data.

geo coordinates are sensitive
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Class
  union of: SensorSetup
  union of: StationSetup
comment: A flag when set to true then the object's geocoordinate information should only be visible to authorized users.

media height
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: ImageObject
comment: The height of the media in pixels.

media URL
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: MediaObject
comment: The URL to download the media as a file

media width
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: ImageObject
comment: The width of the media in pixels.

Entity
type: Class

Observation
type: Class

Result
type: Class

Sensor
type: Class

CaptureEvent
type: Class
subclass of: Entity
comment: The CaptureEvent is a container for a series of observations that were triggered by the same event and can be observed by possibly more than one sensors if these sensors are deployed jointly at the same StationSetup.

MediaObject
type: Class
subclass of: Result
is defined by: A digital media object which results out of an Observation.

Project
type: Class
comment: The wildlive monitoring project which motivates the setup of sensors and collection of obervation data for biodiversity monitoring.

SensorSetup
type: Class
comment: The deployment of a physical sensor at a fixed location over a defined period of time. Should contain metadata about how the sensor was deployed, like the geographical coordinates and the orientation.

StationSetup
type: Class
comment: A fixed geographical location where one or more sensors are set up for a defined period of time. It should contain one or more SensorSetups.

StationsLayout
type: Class
comment: The structured layout of wildlive monitoring stations that are deployed over a period of time as part of a monitoring project. It can be a geographical grid or based on other factors like habitat, etc...