Pattern-based design for modelling an ontology network in the water and health domains

Recently, an increasing interest in the management of water and health resources has been recorded. This interest is fed by the global sustainability challenges posed to the humanity that have water scarcity and quality at their core. Thus, the availability of effective, meaningful and reusable ontologies and data model is crucial to address those issues in the broader context of the Sustainable Development Goals of clean water and sanitation as targeted by the United Nations. In this paper, we present the ontology network developed in the context of the Water Health Open knoWledge project (WHOW) along with its design methodology. The ontology network consists of five pattern-based modules that we extensively describe in this paper by also including a review of the state of the art in terms similar works in both domains water and health.