unpack: Transportation

[brandonnodnarb]

There was a previous GeoVoCamp which addressed transport. I'll track down the notes and add the links here.

Also, the AGI glossary has several relevant terms associated with transport. More than one version of Transport, Mass Transport and volume transport may be applicable.

[pbuttigieg]

Here's ENVO's take on it: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_03000010

[Garybc]

"Abstracting Transport to an Ontology Design Pattern for the Geosciences"
Brandon Whitehead , Benjamin Adams, Mark Schildhauer, Charles Vardeman , Werner Kuhn, Adam Shepard , and Krishna Sinha

The Semantic Transport pattern consists of three core concepts: Event, Entity,
and Mechanism
(see Manchester OWL syntax following this paragraph).

The TransportEvent acts as the top level concept for the pattern. A TransportEvent
describes a specific transport phenomenon, as movement of some mass or energy
(measurable entity) from one location to another, based on a common and
persistent frame of reference. Induction of the mass or energy movement can
arise from the transported entity itself, or from external sources. The TransportEvent
thus has two main parts, TransportEntity and TransportMechanism.
The TransportEntity concept represents the identity of the circumscribed portion
of energy or mass that is moved. The TransportMechanism concept captures
the nature of the source that acts upon the TransportEntity, and thus induces a
TransportEvent.

Class: TransportEvent
TransportEvent SubClassOf owl:Thing
TransportEntity SubClassOf partOf some TransportEvent
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.663.6478&rep=rep1&type=pdf
TransportMechanim SubClassOf partOf some TransportEvent
Class: TransportMechanim
TransportMechanim SubClassOf owl:Thing
TransportMechanim SubClassOf partOf some TransportEvent
Class: TransportEntity
TransportEntity SubClassOf owl:Thing
TransportEntity SubClassOf partOf some TransportEvent

The TransportEvent has one top level property, the referenceFrame (see
Manchester OWL syntax following this paragraph). The referenceFrame provides
context to the pattern by specifying spatial and temporal qualities of any
associated observations via the specification of time and location information
associated with the TransportEvent. As time and location can be fixed or relative,
abstracting the property types serves to facilitate semantic interoperability
between disparate data entities.

ObjectProperty: referenceFrame
referenceFrame Domain TransportEvent
referenceFrame Range TransportEvent

[Garybc]

I note that Envo has "ice loss process subClassOf : has part some ( material transport process or material transformation process) but not much detail beyond this.
If we take this as an example from Atmosphere we get inputs and outputs of some type.
: material transport process and ( has input some ( gaseous environmental material and ( part of some planetary atmosphere))) and ( has output some ( gaseous environmental material and ( located in some outer space)))