Using LOT methodology to develop a noise pollution ontology: a Spanish use case
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Using LOT methodology to develop a noise pollution ontology: a Spanish use case Paola Espinoza‑Arias1 · María Poveda‑Villalón1 · Oscar Corcho1 Received: 24 December 2018 / Accepted: 22 October 2019 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract Local administrations generate large quantities of data due to the processes followed to attend administrative governance issues and the needs of its citizenry. Sadly, in most cases this data is not fully exploited and remains within the institutions, making their reutilization very difficult. Currently, open data initiatives have gained ground worldwide and more cities are taking advantage of adopting an open data strategy, which are visible at the organizational level and at user level. In this respect, there is a need to generate guidelines that allow cities: (a) to identify datasets to be shared, for example pollution, commercial premises, public services, etc. and (b) to publish quality data on their portals. Data should be accurate and interoperable among cities to facilitate reuse. This work describes the development process of an ontology to represent the acoustic pollution data collected by measurement stations located in cities, providing a common model for data publication. The developed ontology reuses several well-known ontologies and includes classes, properties and instances specifically created to cover this domain. This work also includes real examples about how to instantiate the ontology. Keywords Noise pollution · Open data · Ontology
1 Introduction Noise pollution is one of the many environmental problems affecting the health and well-being of citizens in large towns and cities. According to the World Health Organization, noise is the second largest environmental cause of health problems, just after the impact of air quality (COM(2017) 151 final 2017). Bearing in mind this public health issue, many cities around the world have defined several regulations in order to assess and manage environmental noise. In the case of the European Union, in 2002 the Directive 2002/49/EC (Directive EU 2002), also known as the Environmental Noise Directive (END), was passed in order to identify noise pollution levels and to trigger the necessary response from a member state level to the height of the * Paola Espinoza‑Arias [email protected] María Poveda‑Villalón [email protected] Oscar Corcho [email protected] 1
Ontology Engineering Group, ETSI Informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28660 Madrid, Spain
European Union. The END defines the environmental noise pollution as noise caused by road, rail and airport traffic, industry, construction, as well as other outdoor activities. In accordance with one of the key areas related with this directive, member states are committed to reporting their strategic noise maps every five years. The purpose of these maps is to present and assess the calculated/measured noise levels over a geographical area in order to determine the population exposed by this pollution. In
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