Re: Scientific Measurements

Alex,

You can usually get a sense of vocabulary use and how widely if you just do
an internet search on a the vocabulary's prefix... such as this :

https://www.google.com/#q=%22http://qudt.org/1.1%22



On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> wrote:

> I sure would like to see how these vocabularies are used in practice, out
> there, in the wild.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:08 PM, William L. Anderson <band@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> And just to add to the soup there is Catalog QUDT: The QUDT, or
>> 'Quantity, Unit, Dimension and Type' collection of ontologies define base
>> classes, properties, and instances for modeling  physical quantities, units
>> of measure, and their dimensions in various measurement systems.
>>
>>   http://www.linkedmodel.org/catalog/qudt/1.1/index.html
>>
>> -Bill Anderson
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 5, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > But that Type stems from eCommerce & Trade ... but it's all primarily
>> based on UNECE codes... and those happen to have Measurements defined even
>> scientific ones if you dig deep enough in it.
>> >
>> > See the "master list" here:
>> http://www.unece.org/cefact/xml_schemas/index.html  and scroll down and
>> you will see the UNECE MeasurementUnit sections and others.
>> >
>> >
>> > BTW, poke me in eye with a red hot poker for making me read an XML
>> Schema to find a three letter code.  ;)
>> >
>> > Too bad they (or schema.org) doesn't have a flat list of the codes.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > --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
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> --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
>



-- 
-Thad
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry