Intervention class

Definition within the field survey protocol context:

An intervention is a management process to maintain, restore or improve an ecosystem within a spatial area.
Interventions can take a range of forms, including fencing to protect remnant vegetation (Spooner et al. 2002), weed and pest animal control (Martin and van Klinken 2006; Reddiex et al. 2006), restoration and revegetation, re-introductions or translocations (Silcock et al. 2019), removal of watering points, controlled burns, nest box installation and community or landholder workshops (Capon et al. 2020).

See Initial notes.

Some interventions that are surveys or project management:

Identifying the location of potential sites
flora survey
fauna survey

Another question, what are the column header meanings?

Project Service
Field Collection
App Group

Intervention example for debris removal

Use case from:

What to do when interventions contain observations? Should an intervention act more as a collection? Analogous to Observation Collection but it contains observations as well as attributes.
It changes the state of some feature, but it is different to sosa:Actuation as the effects may not be immediate.
Intervention is definitely a type of activity, and it shows similarities with sosa:Actuation, but what are its differences?

OWL class

tern:Intervention
    a owl:Class ;
    reg:status reg:statusExperimental ;
    rdfs:subClassOf
        prov:Activity ;
    skos:definition "An `Intervention` is an activity that carries out a Procedure` to observe or change properties of a `Feature Of Interest`." ;
    skos:prefLabel "Intervention" ;
    skos:scopeNote "An intervention is a management process to maintain, restore or improve an ecosystem within a spatial area." ;
.

tern:interventionType
    a owl:ObjectProperty ;
    rdfs:label "intervention type" ;
    skos:definition "The type of intervention act." ;
.

SHACL shape

tern-shapes:Intervention
    a sh:NodeShape ;
    rdfs:label "Intervention" ;
    sh:property 
        tern-shapes:tern-hasAttribute,
        tern-shapes:tern-interventionType ;
    sh:targetClass tern:Intervention ;
.

<urn:shape:Activity>
    sh:targetClass tern:Intervention ;
.

tern-shapes:tern-interventionType
    a sh:PropertyShape ;
    reg:status reg:statusExperimental ;
    skos:prefLabel "intervention type" ;
    sh:description "The type of intervention act." ;
    sh:maxCount 1 ;
    sh:message "A `tern:Intervention` _MAY_ have a maximum of 1 `tern:interventionType` predicate where the value node is an IRI." ;
    sh:name "tern:interventionType" ;
    sh:nodeKind sh:IRI ;
    sh:path tern:interventionType ;
.

Detailed mapping

Example for Collecting or synthesising baseline data.

Type: survey - which means it’s made up of observations

Outcome: number of baseline datasets collected or synthesised

number of baseline datasets collected or synthesised - tern:Integer
comments - tern:Text
other fields - Fields are determined based on the kind of survey and may overlap with other modules such as fauna survey and flora survey.

Communications material

Type: N/A

Outcome: number of communication materials published

type of communication material published - controlled vocabulary
type of communication material published (other) - tern:Text

Example for Controlling access intervention.

Type: intervention

Basic project-level information (comments/notes on the intervention)
Polygon geometry
Reporting fields (attributes)
1. number of structures installed - tern:Integer
2. sites where access has been controlled - geo:hasGeometry - geo:Geometry - multiple sites is possible
3. size of controlled area - tern:Float unit unit:HA
4. sites protected by access control structures - value is “spatial” - is this the point location of the thing that is being protected?
5. type of access control installed - controlled vocabulary
6. type of access control installed - tern:Text
7. control objective - text - list objective and the species being protected

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