The timely and efficient cooperation across sectors and borders during maritime crises is paramount for the safety of human lives. Maritime monitoring authorities are now realizing the grave importance of cross-sector and cross-border information sharing. However, this cooperation is compromised bythe diversity of existing systems and the vast volumes of heterogeneous data generated and exchanged during maritime operations. In order to address these challenges, the EU has been driving several initiatives, including several EU-funded projects, for facilitating information exchange across sectors and borders. A key outcome from these efforts is the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE), which constitutes a collaborative initiative for promoting automated information sharing between maritime monitoring authorities. However, the adoption of CISE is substantially limited by its existing serialization as an XML Schema only, which facilitates information sharing and exchange to some extent, but fails to deliver the fundamental additional benefits provided by ontologies, like the richer semantics, enhanced semantic interoperability and semantic reasoning capabilities. Thus, this paper presents EUCISE-OWL, an ontology representation of the CISE data model that capitalizes on the benefits provided by ontologies and aims to encourage the adoption of CISE. EUCISE-OWL is an outcome from close collaboration in an EU-funded project with domain experts with extensive experience in deploying CISE in practice. The paper also presents a representative example for handling information exchange during a maritime crisis as well as performance results for specific querying tasks that can demonstrate and evaluate the use of the proposed ontology in practice.

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EUCISE-OWL：海域公共信息共享环境（CISE）的基于本体的表示形式

在海洋危机期间，跨部门和跨边界的及时有效合作对于生命安全至关重要。海事监测机构现在意识到跨部门和跨境信息共享的重要性。但是，这种合作因现有系统的多样性以及海上作业期间生成和交换的大量异构数据而受到损害。为了应对这些挑战，欧盟一直在推动多项举措，包括多项欧盟资助的项目，以促进跨部门和跨边界的信息交换。这些努力的主要成果是通用信息共享环境（CISE），它构成了一项促进海事监控机构之间自动信息共享的协作计划。然而，CISE的采用在很大程度上受到其现有序列化（仅作为XML Schema）的限制，这在一定程度上促进了信息共享和交换，但是无法提供本体所提供的基本的其他好处，例如更丰富的语义，增强的语义互操作性和语义推理。能力。因此，本文介绍了EUCISE-OWL，这是CISE数据模型的本体表示，它利用本体提供的收益并旨在鼓励采用CISE。EUCISE-OWL是在欧盟资助的项目中与在实践中部署CISE拥有丰富经验的领域专家紧密合作的产物。