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Vokabular: Semantic Network Service

The SNS includes comprehensive environmental terminology including associated geographies.

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Basic information

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(P34)?Naming:	Semantic Network Service
(P1266)?Abbreviation:	—
(P724)?Digest:	The Semantic Network Service (SNS) of the Federal Environment Agency provides support for all questions concerning environmental terms including the common place names. (...) SNS contains a bi-lingual (German/English) semantic network which consists of three components: - the Environmental Thesaurus UMTHES® with more than 50,000 inter-networked terms. (Descriptors and Non-Descriptors). - the Geo-Thesaurus-Environment (GTU) with more than 25,000 geographic names and the spatial intersections of all these places. - an Environmental Chronology containing more than 600 contemporary and historical events that affected the environment. The Federal Environment Agency provides this service to encourage the practice of a common domain language in the German Environmental Informatics, and to make this terminology accessible by the public.
(P887)?URL:	https://sns.uba.de/de
(P121)?Genre classification:	Ontology
(P15)?Medientyp:	Online resource
(P608)?Field of knowledge:	Q1299320, Geography, Historical environmental research, History of science, environmental policy
(P936)?Object types:	oeconym, Historical environmental research, environment
(P984)?Object type properties:	Timespan, conceptual system, definition, matching, space

Number of integrated items

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(P613)?Number of integrated items:	12 Standard designation(s), 50 Word/spelling variant(s)

Contact

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(P845)?Creator:	Christian Schweitzer
(P518)?Technically realized by:	Barbara Fock
(P206)?Publisher:	Federal Environment Agency
(P153)?Postal address:	Wörlitzer Platz 1 | 6844 Dessau-Roßlau | Deutschland
(P722)?Email address:	mailto:barbara.fock@uba.de

Methodology

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(P280)?Variant:	Connection to authority control data, Data curation, Entity recognition, Identification and matching, Standardization
(P575)?Design features:	List of terms with short definitions
(P902)?Methodology:	Based on current technical terms (Applies (overall)), Technical terms have a date (Applies to the majority), The technical terms have georeferencing (Applies to a small proportion)
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P1000)?Organisational structure:	Changes can only be made by registered users, Changes can only be made by trained staff
(P999)?Sustainability:	The long-term maintenance of the project is planned, but not guaranteed
(P942)?Number of hierarchy levels:	4
(P900)?Completeness:	Open for growth, completeness cannot be achieved, Partially achieved

Version

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(P18)?Language:	English, German
(P1152)?Date of first publication:	2003
(P222)?Date of publication:	2018
(P939)?Versioning:	No versioning

Cross concordances

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(P898)?External matching:	—
(P573)?Target group:	—

Documentation

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(P382)?Specifications:	Exists, has been produced - Zitationsvorgabe: Umweltbundesamt (Hg.): Umweltthesaurus UMTHES. Dessau. Verfügbar unter: https://sns.uba.de/umthes/de.html - URL: https://sns.uba.de/umthes/de.html
(P978)?External tutorial:	Does not exist, is not present
(P180)?License:	CC BY-SA 4.0

Provision of data

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(P940)?Technology:	RDF database, RDF | Resource Description Framework, Skosmos
(P125)?Status of possesio:	Search results partially visible in online interface, Selective download possible
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P937)?Referencing method:	Persistent identifier(s), URI based identifier(s)
(P903)?Data format:	JSON, RDF | Resource Description Framework
(P923)?API endpoint URL:	https://sns.uba.de/de/api
(P941)?SPARQL endpoint URL:	—
(P995)?Services offered:	—
(P950)?Cite as:	Umweltbundesamt (Hg.).: Semantischer Netzwerk Service (SNS). Dessau. Verfügbar unter: https://sns.uba.de/.

Dataset editing

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(P1302)?Dataset editing:	Julian Freytag