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https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO
Abstract
Livestock Farming Theft Detection Ontology(LFTDO) is a formal Livestock Farming ontology. The focus of the ontology will be on the agriculture domain for Livestock Theft Detection concepts. The purpose of constructing this ontology is to provide a cognitive knowledge-based model for the Livestock Farming domain to be used by the farmers and veterinaries with a goal of Improving Livestock Farming Management to reduce livestock theft, and reducing cost. The ontology should be able to reason on the Livestock Behaviours to detect the abnormally provided by the devices fitted on the livestock with sensor to infer potential theft to farmer. The purpose of Livestock Farming Theft Detection Ontology(LFTDO) is to integrate and analyze data from various sources, such as sensor networks, surveillance cameras, and databases, to identify suspicious activities that may indicate theft in a farming area. Furthermore, it enables livestock theft detection and prevention systems and applications to be accessible, flexible, transparent, interoperable, scalable, and cost effective. The aim is to assist with the early detection of livestock theft by providing a structured and standardized way of representing knowledge about livestock farming, including: 1.Types of livestock 2.The vital components of livestock farming include ownership, farming areas, grazing areas, water sources, and technological resources (i.e. IoT devices, gateways, cloud computing, and machine-learning algorithms). 3.A variety of activities happening such as livestock movement, grazing, and feeding, 4.The people involved in livestock farming include farmers, extended-farmer officers, law enforcement agencies, and veterinarians. 5.A variety of events occurs in a farming area such as livestock theft LFTDO standardizes the data structures, integration, and knowledge representation of livestock farming by defining the concepts, entities, relationships, and rules governing them. The ontology should be able to reason livestock behaviour patterns and environmental conditions data provided to infer the possibility of livestock theft to alert livestock farmers and other stakeholders. See more...
Bug database
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/issues
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/issues
Competency question
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/tree/main/v0.12/SPARQL See more...
Contact*
Tumelo Modise (tumelomodise4@gmail.com)
Rights holder
TUT
Object creation date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
Submission date
June 2, 2026
Depiction
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Deprecated
false See more...
Description*
The Livestock Farming Theft Detection Ontology (LFTDO) is a domain-specific OWL 2 DL ontology designed to support intelligent, semantically-driven livestock theft detection in rural South Africa. It provides a formal knowledge representation of livestock behaviour, IoT sensor data, geofence monitoring, and theft event classification enabling AI-driven reasoning over real-time sensor streams from GPS tracking collars and IoT devices. The LFTDO is the knowledge core of the Onto-AIoTA (Ontology-based IoT AI Architecture), where it functions as the Semantic Layer transforming raw sensor data into classified, severity-graded theft alerts through 27 SWRL inference rules. See more...
Documentation
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/
Funded or sponsored by
TUT
Contributor
Zubeida Dawood
Albertus Abraham Kruger Buitendag
Creator
Tumelo Modise
Subject
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2807 See more...
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4397 See more...
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_32522 See more...
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_a97eb278 See more...
Formality level
http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology
http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology
License
Creative Commons License
Representation language*
OWL See more...
Syntax
http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/OWL_Manchester
http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/OWL_Manchester
Homepage
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/
Indexed or included in catalog or repository
https://data.agroportal.eu/
https://data.agroportal.eu/
https://stage.agroportal.eu
stage.agroportal.eu
Generic type
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#DomainOntology
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#DomainOntology
Key classes
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO#TheftEvent See more...
Known usage
Reasons over livestock behaviour and environmental conditions to infer theft risks and alert farmers and relevant stakeholders. See more...
Provides a standardized representation of livestock, ownership, farming and grazing areas, water sources, people, activities, technology, and theft events. See more...
Integrates sensor, surveillance, and database data to identify suspicious activity and support early livestock-theft detection. See more...
Enables flexible, transparent, interoperable, scalable, and cost-effective theft-detection and prevention applications. See more...
Metadata vocabulary used
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
http://purl.org/dc/terms/
http://purl.org/dc/terms/
Modification date
March 1, 2026
Object modification date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
Natural language
Notes
Developed in the context of Masters of Computing in Computer Science See more...
Livestock Farming Theft Detection Ontology(LFTDO) Author: Tumelo Modise, 209332175,Date : 13 September 2023, Updated: 01/03/2026 University: Tshwane University of Technology(TUT) Subject:Masters of Computing in Computer Science Supervisors: Dr A Buitengdag,Dr Z Dawood,Prof J Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Livestock Farming Theft Detection Ontology(LFTDO) is a formal Livestock Farming ontology. The focus of the ontology will be on the agriculture domain for Livestock Theft Detection concepts. The purpose of constructing this ontology is to provide a cognitive knowledge-based model for the Livestock Farming domain to be used by the farmers and veterinaries with a goal of Improving Livestock Farming Management to reduce livestock theft, and reducing cost. The ontology should be able to reason on the Livestock Behaviours to detect the abnormally provided by the devices fitted on the livestock with sensor to infer potential theft to farmer. Purpose ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The purpose of Livestock Farming Theft Detection Ontology(LFTDO) is to integrate and analyze data from various sources, such as sensor networks, surveillance cameras, and databases, to identify suspicious activities that may indicate theft in a farming area. Furthermore, it enables livestock theft detection and prevention systems and applications to be accessible, flexible, transparent, interoperable, scalable, and cost effective. The aim is to assist with the early detection of livestock theft by providing a structured and standardized way of representing knowledge about livestock farming, including: 1.Types of livestock 2.The vital components of livestock farming include ownership, farming areas, grazing areas, water sources, and technological resources (i.e. IoT devices, gateways, cloud computing, and machine-learning algorithms). 3.A variety of activities happening such as livestock movement, grazing, and feeding, 4.The people involved in livestock farming include farmers, extended-farmer officers, law enforcement agencies, and veterinarians. 5.A variety of events occurs in a farming area such as livestock theft LFTDO standardizes the data structures, integration, and knowledge representation of livestock farming by defining the concepts, entities, relationships, and rules governing them. The ontology should be able to reason livestock behaviour patterns and environmental conditions data provided to infer the possibility of livestock theft to alert livestock farmers and other stakeholders. See more...
Preferred namespace prefix
lftdo See more...
Preferred namespace URI
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO#
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO#
Publisher
TUT
Creation date*
November 2, 2023
Repository
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO
Status*
alpha See more...
URI Lookup Endpoint
https://data.agroportal.eu/search?ontologies=LFTDO&require_exact_match=true&q=
https://data.agroportal.eu/search?ontologies=LFTDO&require_exact_match=true&q=
Identifier pattern
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO# See more...
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Version information
12 See more...
Version IRI
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/v0.12
https://github.com/tumelomodise/LFTDO/v0.12

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