Tools, Languages, Methodologies for Representing Semantics on the Web of Things

2A Systematic Review of Ontologies for the Water Domain

Current water research integrates Semantic Web technologies for effective water resources management. Various semantic models have been designed to describe water resources, such as water body, water type, water pipe, water meter, reservoir, catchment, pump and sensor. It is challenging to find the water-related ontologies in one place as recent studies are primarily focused on water resources management by developing different water ontologies. However, no-one has presented a literature review to provide all information on existing ontologies. This chapter presents a systematic literature survey to discuss different existing ontologies for water resources and explore their features and applications. A three-step research methodology has been followed to conduct the detailed systematic literature review, ontology characterization and ontology selection from existing sources. As a survey finding, several resources and repositories have been deeply analyzed, and 25 related studies are found. Further more, 14 ontologies are extracted from the related studies. The main finding is that only seven of them are available online to be reused or guide the development of new water ontologies. A detailed review is presented in the chapter with different parameters of existing water-related ontologies and short descriptions of all these ontologies. This chapter also highlights the application of ontologies in different water domains ...