Shehabeldeen Abdelfatah, Julián Rojas, Janelcy Alferes, and Pieter Colpaert: "Monitoring water using an RDF-based Water Data Space", Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026), Poster and Demo Track (2026).

Abstract

Water locks monitor river stage and discharge for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels on a canal or river. In the WaterFRAME project, we are building a water data space to bring together relevant data producers and consumers, and agree on how data should be discovered, made interoperable, and trusted. In this demonstrator, we show a prototype visualizing all relevant data for a water lock from disparate sources. We experimented with Linked Data Event Streams as a source format and found that combining it with RDF Time Series Snippets reduces the object count, affecting ingestion efficiency. We ingested the data in a consumption framework and experimented with Virtuoso, Oxigraph, and Postgres. The demo guides users through interactive modules for historical data browsing, plotting, and SPARQL querying.