A Validation Tool for the W3C SSN Ontology based Sensory Semantic Knowledge

This paper describes an ontology validation tool that is designed for the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Ontology (W3C SSN). The tool allows ontologies and linked-data descriptions to be validated against the concepts and properties used in the W3C SSN model. It generates validation reports and collects statistics regarding the most commonly used terms and concepts within the ontologies. An online version of the tool is available at: (http://iot.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSNValidation). This tool can be used as a checking and validation service for new ontology developments in the IoT domain. It can also be used to give feedback to W3C SSN and other similar ontology developers regarding the most commonly used concepts and properties from the reference ontology and this information can be used to create core ontologies that have higher level interoperability across different systems and various application domains.