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The SAREF Pipeline and Portal—An Ontology Verification Framework

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Abstract

The Smart Applications REFerence Ontology (SAREF) defines a modular set of versioned ontologies that enable semantic interoperability between different Internet of Things (IoT) vendor solutions across various IoT industries. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute Specialist Task Force (ETSI STF) 578 recently completed the “Specification of the SAREF Development Framework and Workflow and Development of the SAREF Community Portal for User Engagement”. This project specifies the development pipeline and workflow needed to accelerate the development of SAREF and its extensions along with the development of software that automates the generation of ontology portal content from SAREF sources on the public ETSI Forge. This paper describes the SAREF Pipeline that provides an efficient and robust support infrastructure for the Continuous Integration and Delivery of semantic ontology development.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Linting, named after a UNIX pre-processor command for the C language, is an approach that consists of statically analyzing software source code to detect errors, bugs, or style mistakes.

  2. 2.

    https://jena.apache.org/documentation/archive/eyeball/eyeball-manual.html.

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/imas/rdflint.

  4. 4.

    https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=takemikami.vscode-rdflint.

  5. 5.

    https://jena.apache.org/documentation/tools/index.html.

  6. 6.

    https://obofoundry.org/.

  7. 7.

    https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps.

  8. 8.

    https://github.com/marketplace/actions/case-ontology-validator.

  9. 9.

    https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-rdflint.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/marketplace/actions/rdf-syntax-check.

  11. 11.

    https://github.com/marketplace/actions/validate-rdf-with-jena.

  12. 12.

    https://github.com/marketplace/actions/validate-shacl.

  13. 13.

    https://portal.etsi.org/Services/editHelp/How-to-start/Document-procedures-and-types/Version-numbering-system.

  14. 14.

    https://saref.etsi.org/sources/saref-portal.

  15. 15.

    ETSI draft editing rules disallow the use of the must keyword. The highest level of specification enforcement is shall.

  16. 16.

    example: https://labs.etsi.org/rep/saref/saref4agri/-/issues/1.

  17. 17.

    Test reports in Merge Request on GitLab: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/testing/unit_test_reports.html.

  18. 18.

    Stubs for SHACL shapes are available at https://saref.etsi.org/sources/saref-pipeline/-/tree/master/src/main/resources/shapes.

  19. 19.

    Violations of type UseOfDefinedDatatypeInDatatypeRestriction, UseOfDefinedDatatypeInLiteral, UseOfUndeclaredDatatype, and UseOfUnknownDatatype.

  20. 20.

    Available in the main/resources/documentation folder of the saref-pipeline.

  21. 21.

    SPARQL-Generate 2.0 with generate, template, select, and function queries has no dedicated publication yet. More information can be obtained from the website and presentation at https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/sparql-generate/, and https://www.slideshare.net/maximelefrancois86/overview-of-the-sparqlgenerate-language-and-latest-developments.

  22. 22.

    See https://labs.etsi.org/rep/saref/saref-pipeline/-/blob/master/src/main/resources/documentation/en.properties.

  23. 23.

    https://www.etsi.org/standards/standards-making.

  24. 24.

    https://portal.etsi.org/webapp/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=68491.

  25. 25.

    https://portal.etsi.org/xtfs/#/xTF/653.

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Acknowledgements

The development of the SAREF Pipeline has been funded by ETSI STF 578. The authors thank the other experts involved in this project, who contributed to the definition of the SAREF development workflow detailed in Sect. 4.1, and to online web services OOPS! and Themis that are called by the SAREF Pipeline. Ongoing development is funded by ETSI STF 653.

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  2. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Valentina Presutti

  3. Southeast University, Nanjing, China

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  4. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  5. Huawei Technologies R&D UK, Edinburgh, UK

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  6. Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  7. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Zoi Kaoudi

  8. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    Gong Cheng

  9. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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Source code of the SAREF Pipeline is available from the ETSI Forge (https://saref.etsi.org/sources/saref-pipeline). It is also registered on Zenodo with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7913534 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913534). The canonical citation is [25].

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Lefrançois, M., Gnabasik, D. (2023). The SAREF Pipeline and Portal—An Ontology Verification Framework. In: Payne, T.R., et al. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023. ISWC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_8

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