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Move GeoSPARQL references into a bridging ontology.
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@prefix : <https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/GeospatialGeoSPARQL/> .
@prefix obo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix xml: <http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix cco: <https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix geosparql: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> .
@base <https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/GeospatialGeoSPARQL> .

<https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/GeospatialGeoSPARQL> rdf:type owl:Ontology ;
owl:versionIRI <https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/2025-11-24/GeospatialGeoSPARQL> ;
owl:imports <https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/GeospatialOntology> ;
owl:imports <https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/InformationEntityOntology> ;
owl:imports <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql> ;
dcterms:license "BSD 3-Clause: https://github.com/CommonCoreOntology/CommonCoreOntologies/blob/master/LICENSE"@en ;
rdfs:comment """
This bridge ontology is designed to link GeoSPARQL and GeospatialOntology, so that CCO applications can use GeoSPARQL datatypes to represent location and shape.
"""@en ;
rdfs:label "Geospatial-GeoSPARQL bridge Ontology"@en ;
dcterms:creator <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3884-3420> , <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-3078> ;
dcterms:created "2025-11-24"^^xsd:date ;
dcterms:modified "2025-11-24"^^xsd:date ;
owl:versionInfo "Version 1.0"@en ;
.

#################################################################
# Object Properties
#################################################################

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#hasGeometry
geosparql:hasGeometry
a owl:ObjectProperty ;
rdfs:subPropertyOf cco:ont00001801 ; # is subject of
rdfs:domain geosparql:Feature ;
rdfs:range geosparql:Geometry ;
skos:definition "A spatial representation for a given feature."@en ;
rdfs:label "has geometry"@en ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> ;
cco:ont00001760 "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql"^^xsd:anyURI ;
.

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#sfWithin
geosparql:sfWithin
a owl:ObjectProperty ;
rdfs:subPropertyOf obo:BFO_0000171 ; # located in at some times
rdfs:domain geosparql:SpatialObject ;
rdfs:range geosparql:SpatialObject ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy
: ,
<http://www.opengis.net/spec/geosparql/1.0/req/topology-vocab-extension/sf-spatial-relations> ,
<http://www.opengis.net/spec/geosparql/1.1/req/topology-vocab-extension/sf-spatial-relations> ;
skos:definition """States that the subject SpatialObject is spatially within the object SpatialObject. DE-9IM: T*F**F***"""@en ;
rdfs:seeAlso <http://dbpedia.org/resource/DE-9IM> ;
skos:prefLabel "within"@en ;
.


#################################################################
# Data properties
#################################################################

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#asWKT
geosparql:asWKT
a owl:DatatypeProperty ;
rdfs:subPropertyOf :hasSerialization ;
rdfs:domain geosparql:Geometry ;
rdfs:range geosparql:wktLiteral ;
rdfs:label "as WKT"@en ;
skos:definition "A Data Property that has as its range a string formated according to the Well-known text standardization for geometric objects."@en ;
skos:example "Polygon ((10 10, 10 20, 20 20, 20 15, 10 10))" ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> ;
cco:ont00001760 "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql"^^xsd:anyURI ;
.

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#hasSerialization
geosparql:hasSerialization
a owl:DatatypeProperty ;
rdfs:domain geosparql:Geometry ;
rdfs:range rdfs:Literal ;
skos:definition "Connects a geometry object with its text-based serialization."@en ;
rdfs:label "has serialization"@en ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> ;
cco:ont00001760 "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql"^^xsd:anyURI ;
.

#################################################################
# Datatypes
#################################################################

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#wktLiteral
geosparql:wktLiteral
a rdfs:Datatype ;
skos:definition "A Well-known Text serialization of a geometry object."@en ;
rdfs:label "Well-known Text Literal"@en ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> ;
cco:ont00001760 "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql"^^xsd:anyURI ;
.

#################################################################
# Classes
#################################################################

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#SpatialObject
geosparql:SpatialObject
a owl:Class ;
rdfs:subClassOf [
owl:unionOf (
obo:BFO_0000002 # continuant
obo:BFO_0000015 # process
)
] ;
skos:definition "Anything spatial (being or having a shape, position or an extent)."@en ;
rdfs:label "Spatial Object"@en ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> ;
cco:ont00001760 "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql"^^xsd:anyURI ;
.

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Feature
geosparql:Feature
a owl:Class ;
owl:equivalentClass [
owl:unionOf (
obo:BFO_0000004 # independent continuant
obo:BFO_0000015 # process
)
] ;
owl:disjointWith geosparql:Geometry ;
skos:definition "A discrete spatial phenomenon in a universe of discourse."@en ;
rdfs:label "Feature"@en ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> ;
cco:ont00001760 "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql"^^xsd:anyURI ;
.

### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Geometry
geosparql:Geometry
a owl:Class ;
rdfs:subClassOf cco:ont00000958 ; # information content entity
skos:definition "A coherent set of direct positions in Euclidian space. A direct position holds the coordinates for a position within a Coordinate Reference System (CRS)."@en ;
rdfs:label "Geometry"@en ;
rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#> ;
cco:ont00001760 "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql"^^xsd:anyURI ;
.

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# Data properties
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### http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#asWKT
<http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#asWKT> rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty ;
rdfs:comment "ISO 19162:2015"@en ;
rdfs:label "as WKT"@en ;
skos:definition "A Data Property that has as its range a string formated according to the Well-known text standardization for geometric objects."@en ;
skos:example "Polygon ((10 10, 10 20, 20 20, 20 15, 10 10))" ;
cco:ont00001760 "https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/GeospatialOntology"^^xsd:anyURI .


### https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001763
cco:ont00001763 rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty ;
rdfs:comment "Altitude values typically use kilometers as the Unit of Measurement."@en ;
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