[Seavox] Devices Controlled Vocabulary

[Roy Lowry]

Dear All,

It's been a while since there was activity on the list, so now the holiday season is drawing to a close I thought it time to stir things up again.  Basically, I need to build a 'devices' Controlled Vocabulary for SeaDataNet.  However, I thought that I would share what I'm doing with SeaVoX so we end up with something useful outside SeaDataNet, preferably something that would provide both a basis for SensorML record population and the foundation for a "Devices" ontology.

My plan is to start building a set of lists, namely:

Device types (L211) - high level category - initially sample collectors/processors/analysers and sensors
Device disciplines (L212) - high level category - physicas, chemistry, biology, geology etc.

Sample collectors (L061) - nets, corers, water bottles etc.
Sample processors (L062) - incubators, filtration systems, etc.
Sample analysers (L063) - laboratory instruments of varying kinds
Sensors (L064) - in-situ measurement takers

and the build SKOS mapping relationships between the first two lists and the four lower lists (each representing a 'device type') .  


My initial questions to SeaVox list readers is:

Are there any more device types that should be considered other than the four I've got?

Should I put an explicit hierarchy level (generic e.g. water bottle/specific e.g. 10-litre Go-Flo bottle) in each of the category lists or depend upon putting relationships between list members?

Is there anything else I should be doing?

Once I've got the framework firmed up I'll be asking for your favourite 'instrument lists' to populate the vocabs.

Cheers, Roy.