Re: Scientific Measurements

Alex, do you think that "non-scientific" and "scientific" can share a 
vocabulary? Or are the purposes too different?

It seems like *measurement* itself is general enough to be usable in 
nearly all contexts.

kc

On 6/5/13 9:11 AM, Alex Milowski wrote:
> I'm curious if there are any of you working on annotating scientific
> measurements.  Specifically, I'm looking for structured values that
> would contain properties such as:
>
>     * "the target quantity" - e.g. air temperature, luminosity, etc.
>     * measurement method
>     * SI units
>     * expected error
>     * category (e.g. surface air temperature vs atmospheric air temperature)
>
> Most of my examples come out of weather data but I've also been looking
> at the measurements used by astronomers as well.
>
> In fact, the IVOA's UCD (Unified Content Descriptors) [1] is an
> interesting approach to creating tuples that are backed by some kind of
> scientific measurement semantics.  Their approach hasn't been
> translated, as far as I know, into any kind of RDF-aware schema.
>
> [1] http://www.ivoa.net/documents/latest/UCD.html
>
> --
> --Alex Milowski
> "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
> inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
> considered."
>
> Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

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