The growing interest for space resources by international governments, space agencies, and the private sector, generates a vast and dynamic amount of heterogeneous data, information, and knowledge as reflected in the number of scientific publications, patents, reports, and even news and reports regularly published in different medias. These are centralized via a recently launched Knowledge Sharing Platform that allows to federate the space resources community. The Space Resources Ontology (SROnto) that is described here, is at the heart of this platform since it drives the integration of knowledge into this platform but also support knowledge extraction and management. In this paper, we explain the various steps we have followed to conceptualize, formalize, validate and maintain the ontology over time as well as other important aspects such as its potential impact to become a standard for the community. We further pay a particular attention to the FAIR principles and their incidence on SROnto.

As part of my work as a Knowledge Management Officer at ESA, I contributed to this project to gather the relevant data used for this platform.