Re: DQV terminology - Quality Measure, Measurement, Observation?

Folks,

Perhaps the following papers (from our research group)
could be of help:

http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/a_well_founded_software_measurement_ontology_2010.pdf
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1301/ontocomodise2014_9.pdf

best regards,
Giancarlo

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Riccardo Albertoni <
riccardo.albertoni@ge.imati.cnr.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I think "QualityMeasure" is the most natural choice for people coming from
> the quality domain, who in my opinion are   our primary target.
> "QualityObservation" might result a little confusing for people who are not
> aware of RDFCube terminology.
>  I am almost sure to remember that  we decided to rename   daq:Observation
> in DQV:QualityMeasure for the above  reasons.
>
> I find interesting that ISO seems to use  the term "measurement" for the
> action, and "measure" for the result of the action,
>
> [[
> 4.5 data quality measure
> variable to which a value is assigned as the result of measurement of a
> data quality characteristic
> ]]
>
>
> That might be a sort of answer to the  "measurement vs measure" doubt,  I
> suspect the two words are almost interchangeable,  as the merriam webster
> seems to suggest  in [1] and [2],   but  here I would leave the last word
> to   the  native speakers ....
>
>
> Cheers,
> Riccardo
>
> [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/measurement
> [2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/measure
>
> On 19 February 2016 at 11:49, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya <
> nmihindu@fi.upm.es> wrote:
>
>> Hi Antoine,
>>
>> If it helps, "quality measure" is defined in ISO/IEC 25012 [1] as
>>
>> [[
>> 4.5 data quality measure
>> variable to which a value is assigned as the result of measurement of a
>> data quality characteristic
>> ]]
>>
>> which is based on ISO/IEC 15939:2007 [2]
>>
>> [[
>> 2.15
>> measure, noun
>> variable to which a value is assigned as the result of measurement
>> ]]
>>
>> However, I agree that it might not have the same meaning in the Data
>> Cube. Personally I am ok with renaming QualityMeasure as QualityObservation
>> if we want to align it more with it's parent class from the Data Cube.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Nandana
>>
>> [1] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:25012:ed-1:v1:en
>> [2] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:15939:ed-2:v2:en
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Related to ongoing discussions on DQV terminology, I have now a doubt on
>>> how we use the word 'measure'.
>>>
>>> In the spec, dqv:QualityMeasure is a sub-class of (Datacube)
>>> qb:Observation [1] and an instance of dqv:QualityMeasure can be interpreted
>>> as the result of an action (of observing).
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure this is really in line with the Datacube notions. In
>>> the definitions at [2] (especially in section 6) 'measures' are rather
>>> conceptual. Actually they may sit rather at the level of what we call
>>> 'metric' than at the level of thecurrent dqv:QualityMeasure.
>>>
>>> I am also wondering whether some of us (especially me) may be biased
>>> because in our native languages, the noun 'measure' (not the verb!) may
>>> have a wider acception than in English. For example in French the noun
>>> 'mesure' can mean both the metric (in a mathematical sense) and the result
>>> of the action of measuring. Maybe English speakers would rather call the
>>> latter a 'measurement', (even though the boundaries for this noun are also
>>> not very clear in English either).
>>>
>>> What do the native English speakers in the group think?
>>>
>>> If there's general agreement that 'measure' is too confusing, then I'd
>>> suggest we replace QualityMeasure by QualityMeasurement or
>>> QualityObservation.
>>>
>>> The problem is that the 'noun' observation will also be confusing for
>>> people outside the DataCube context. If I was not a bit familiar with
>>> Datacube, I'd think that dqv:QualityObservation could be a superclass of
>>> other classes in DQV like dqv:UserQualityFeedback [1]...
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>>
>>> [1] http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/vocab-dqg.html#dqv:QualityMeasure
>>> [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/
>>>
>>>
>>
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