- From: Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 20:11:29 -0500
- To: Simon.Cox@csiro.au
- Cc: Ralph Hodgson <rhodgson@topquadrant.com>, Mark Harrison <mark.harrison@cantab.net>, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>, "Paul J. Keller" <paul.j.keller@nasa.gov>, "<steve.ray@sv.cmu.edu>" <steve.ray@sv.cmu.edu>, Jack Hodges <jack.hodges.ext@siemens.com>, Jack Spivak <jack@topquadrant.com>
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On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:00 PM, <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:
> However, note that ISO 8601 is only for “Gregorian dates, times,
> datetime intervals, durations, and recurring datetimes.”
>
>
>
> So does not support non-Gregorian descriptions of time – such as GPS, Unix
> time,
>
> also geological, archeological, dynastic, Hebrew, Islamic, Baha’i etc.
>
>
>
Indeed:
* 0 results: http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/terms?q=picoseconds
QUDT would likely be the place to add the scalar/prefix mapping for these
gaps in ISO8601.
Just put this together, cc'ing here as relevant to Quantities, Units,
Dimensions, and Types; and science:
QUDT <#qudt>
> Homepage: http://www.linkedmodel.org/doc/qudt/1.1/
> Standard: http://qudt.org/
> Docs: http://www.linkedmodel.org/catalog/qudt/1.1/
> Namespace: http://qudt.org/schema/qudt#
> Namespace: http://qudt.org/1.1/schema/qudt#
> xmlns: @prefix qudt: <http://qudt.org/schema/qudt#> .
> xmlns: @prefix qudt-1.1: <http://qudt.org/1.1/schema/qudt#> .
> LOVLink: http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/vocabs/qudt
>
> QUDT (*Quantities, Units, Dimensions, and Types*) is an *RDF* <#rdf> standard
> vocabulary for representing physical units.
>
> - QUDT is composed of a number of sub-vocabularies
> - QUDT maintains conversion factors for Metric and Imperial Units
>
> Examples:
>
> -
>
> qudt:SpaceAndTimeUnit
>
> qudt:SpaceAndTimeUnit
> rdf:type owl:Class ;
> rdfs:label "Space And Time Unit"^^xsd:string ;
> rdfs:subClassOf qudt:PhysicalUnit ;
> rdfs:subClassOf
> [ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
> owl:hasValue "UST"^^xsd:string ;
> owl:onProperty qudt:typePrefix
> ] .
>
> -
>
> QUDT Namespaces:
>
> @prefix qudt: <http://qudt.org/schema/qudt#> .
> @prefix qudt-1.1: <http://qudt.org/1.1/schema/qudt#> .
> @prefix qudt-dimension: <http://qudt.org/vocab/dimension#> .
> @prefix qudt-quantity: <http://qudt.org/vocab/quantity#> .
> @prefix qudt-unit-1.1: <http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/unit#> .
>
>
> This diagram explains how each of the vocabularies are linked and derived:
> http://www.linkedmodel.org/catalog/qudt/1.1/
> QUDT Quantities <#qudt-quantities>
>
> Schema
> Standard: http://qudt.org/1.1/schema/quantity
> Namespace: http://qudt.org/1.1/schema/quantity#
> xmlns: @prefix quantity: <http://data.nasa.gov/qudt/owl/quantity#> .
> Turtle: http://qudt.org/1.1/schema/OSG_quantity-(v1.1).ttl
>
> Vocabulary
> xmlns: @prefix qudt-quantity: <http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/quantity#> .
> Namespace: http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/quantity#
> Turtle: http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/OVG_quantities-qudt-(v1.1).ttl
>
> *QUDT* <#qudt> Quantities is an *RDF* <#rdf> schema and vocabulary for
> describing physical quantities.
>
> Examples from http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/OVG_quantities-qudt-(v1.1).ttl :
>
> -
>
> quantity:Time
>
> qudt-quantity:Time
> rdf:type qudt:SpaceAndTimeQuantityKind ;
> rdfs:label "Time"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:description "Time is a basic component of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects."^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:symbol "T"^^xsd:string ;
> skos:exactMatch <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Time> .
> # ...
> unit:SecondTime
> qudt:quantityKind qudt-quantity:Time .
>
> -
>
> quantity:AreaTimeTemperature
>
> qudt-quantity:AreaTimeTemperature
> rdf:type qudt:ThermodynamicsQuantityKind ;
> rdfs:label "Area Time Temperature"^^xsd:string .
> # ...
> unit:SquareFootSecondDegreeFahrenheit
> qudt:quantityKind qudt-quantity:AreaTimeTemperature .
>
>
> QUDT Units <#qudt-units>
> Standard: http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/unit
> Namespace: http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/unit#
> xmlns: @prefix unit: <http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/unit> .
> xmlns: @prefix qudt-unit-1.1: <http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/unit#> .
> Turtle: http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/OVG_units-qudt-(v1.1).ttl
>
> The *QUDT* <#qudt> Units Ontology is an *RDF* <#rdf> vocabulary defining
> many units of measure.
>
> Examples:
>
> -
>
> unit:SecondTime
>
> unit:SecondTime
> rdf:type qudt:SIBaseUnit , qudt:TimeUnit ;
> rdfs:label "Second"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:abbreviation "s"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:code "1615"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:conversionMultiplier
> "1"^^xsd:double ;
> qudt:conversionOffset
> "0.0"^^xsd:double ;
> qudt:symbol "s"^^xsd:string ;
> skos:exactMatch <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Second> .
> # ...
>
> http://www.qudt.org/qudt/owl/1.0.0/unit/Instances.html#SecondTime
> -
>
> unit:HorsepowerElectric
>
> http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/OVG_units-qudt-(v1.1).ttl
>
> unit:HorsepowerElectric
> rdf:type qudt:NotUsedWithSIUnit , qudt:PowerUnit ;
> rdfs:label "Horsepower Electric"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:abbreviation "hp/V"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:code "0815"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:symbol "hp/V"^^xsd:string .
>
> -
>
> unit:SystemOfUnits_SI
>
> http://qudt.org/1.1/vocab/OVG_units-qudt-(v1.1).ttl
>
> unit:SystemOfUnits_SI
> rdf:type qudt:SystemOfUnits ;
> rdfs:label "International System of Units"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:abbreviation "SI"^^xsd:string ;
> qudt:systemAllowedUnit
> unit:ArcMinute , unit:Day , unit:MinuteTime , unit:DegreeAngle , unit:ArcSecond , unit:ElectronVolt , unit:RevolutionPerHour , unit:Femtometer , unit:DegreePerSecond , unit:DegreeCelsius , unit:Liter , unit:MicroFarad , unit:AmperePerDegree , unit:RevolutionPerMinute , unit:MicroHenry , unit:Kilometer , unit:Revolution , unit:Hour , unit:PicoFarad , unit:Gram , unit:DegreePerSecondSquared , unit:MetricTon , unit:CubicCentimeter , unit:SquareCentimeter , unit:CubicMeterPerHour , unit:KiloPascal , unit:DegreePerHour , unit:UnifiedAtomicMassUnit , unit:MilliHenry , unit:KilogramPerHour , unit:KiloPascalAbsolute , unit:NanoFarad , unit:RadianPerMinute , unit:RevolutionPerSecond ;
> qudt:systemBaseUnit unit:Kilogram , unit:Unitless , unit:Kelvin , unit:Meter , unit:SecondTime , unit:Mole , unit:Candela , unit:Ampere ;
> qudt:systemCoherentDerivedUnit
> unit:PerCubicMeter , unit:WattPerSquareMeter , unit:Volt , unit:WattPerMeterKelvin , unit:CoulombPerCubicMeter , unit:Becquerel , unit:WattPerSquareMeterSteradian , unit:KelvinPerSecond , unit:Gray , unit:RadianPerSecond , unit:VoltPerMeter , unit:HenryPerMeter , unit:WattPerSteradian , unit:JouleMeterPerMole , unit:CoulombMeter , unit:PerTeslaMeter , unit:Pascal , unit:LumenPerWatt , unit:KilogramMeterPerSecond , unit:SquareMeterKelvin , unit:MoleKelvin , unit:MeterKelvinPerWatt , unit:Steradian , unit:AmperePerMeter , unit:SquareMeterKelvinPerWatt , unit:JouleSecond , unit:MeterPerFarad , unit:KilogramPerSecond , unit:HertzPerTesla , unit:KilogramMeterSquared , unit:WattPerSquareMeterQuarticKelvin , unit:PerMeterKelvin , unit:JoulePerCubicMeterKelvin , unit:JoulePerSquareTesla , unit:JoulePerCubicMeter , unit:MeterPerKelvin , unit:AmperePerSquareMeter , unit:CubicCoulombMeterPerSquareJoule , unit:CoulombPerMeter , unit:Katal , unit:CubicMeter , unit:LumenSecond , unit:Coulomb , unit:MolePerKilogram , unit:CubicMeterPerKilogramSecondSquared , unit:PerMeter , unit:AmperePerRadian , unit:CoulombPerKilogram , unit:QuarticCoulombMeterPerCubicEnergy , unit:Tesla , unit:JoulePerKilogram , unit:MeterKelvin , unit:MeterPerSecond , unit:NewtonMeter , unit:CandelaPerSquareMeter , unit:Siemens , unit:CoulombSquareMeter , unit:KilogramPerCubicMeter , unit:KilogramSecondSquared , unit:Watt , unit:AmperePerJoule , unit:VoltPerSecond , unit:JoulePerKilogramKelvinPerCubicMeter , unit:PascalPerSecond , unit:CubicMeterPerMole , unit:KilogramPerMeter , unit:PascalSecond , unit:Joule , unit:HertzPerVolt , unit:KilogramPerSquareMeter , unit:PerTeslaSecond , unit:MolePerCubicMeter , unit:PerSecond , unit:JoulePerKelvin , unit:RadianPerSecondSquared , unit:Newton , unit:CubicMeterPerKelvin , unit:GrayPerSecond , unit:SquareMeterPerSecond , unit:CubicMeterPerKilogram , unit:KilogramPerMole , unit:SquareMeterPerKelvin , unit:SquareMeterSteradian , unit:TeslaSecond , unit:Ohm , unit:KelvinPerWatt , unit:JoulePerKilogramKelvinPerPascal , unit:WattSquareMeter , unit:MeterKilogram , unit:WattSquareMeterPerSteradian , unit:Hertz , unit:VoltPerSquareMeter , unit:CubicMeterPerSecond , unit:JoulePerMoleKelvin , unit:TeslaMeter , unit:JoulePerMole , unit:Lux , unit:FaradPerMeter , unit:PerMole , unit:JouleSecondPerMole , unit:AmpereTurnPerMeter , unit:VoltMeter , unit:SecondTimeSquared , unit:AmpereTurn , unit:JoulePerKilogramKelvin , unit:CoulombPerSquareMeter , unit:NewtonPerKilogram , unit:JoulePerSquareMeter , unit:Weber , unit:Henry , unit:MeterPerSecondSquared , unit:KilogramKelvin , unit:Sievert , unit:NewtonPerMeter , unit:WattPerSquareMeterKelvin , unit:SquareCoulombMeterPerJoule , unit:Lumen , unit:Farad , unit:HertzPerKelvin , unit:SquareMeter , unit:JoulePerTesla , unit:Radian , unit:KelvinPerTesla , unit:NewtonPerCoulomb , unit:CoulombPerMole ;
> qudt:systemPrefixUnit
> unit:Hecto , unit:Nano , unit:Tera , unit:Atto , unit:Kilo , unit:Yocto , unit:Yotta , unit:Deci , unit:Zepto , unit:Pico , unit:Femto , unit:Milli , unit:Micro , unit:Zetta , unit:Mega , unit:Centi , unit:Giga , unit:Peta , unit:Deca , unit:Exa ;
> skos:exactMatch <http://dbpedia.org/resource/International_System_of_Units> .
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Wes Turner [mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, 8 May 2015 12:49 AM
> *To:* Ralph TQ [Gmail]
> *Cc:* Mark Harrison; Martin Hepp; Kingsley Idehen; W3C Web Schemas Task
> Force; Paul J. Keller; <steve.ray@sv.cmu.edu>; Jack Hodges; Jack Spivak
> *Subject:* Re: URIs / Ontology for Physical Units and Quantities
>
>
>
> Note also that, for durations of time, schema:duration (range
> schema:Duration) specifies "(use ISO 8601 duration format
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601>)."
>
>
>
> http://schema.org/Duration
>
> https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering#iso8601
>
>
>
> ISO8601
>
> Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
>
> Standard: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso8601
>
> ISO8601 is a standard for specifying Gregorian dates, times, datetime
> intervals, durations, and recurring datetimes.
>
> An ISO8601 datetime is specified as: year, month, day, hour, ‘T’ or space,
> minute, second, timezone.
>
> A Z timezone specifies Universal Coordinated (or “Zulu”) time.
>
> - http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
>
> Examples of ISO8601:
>
> 2014
>
> 2014-10
>
> 2014-10-23
>
> 20141023
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30+Z # UTC / Zulu
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30Z # UTC / Zulu
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30-06:00 # CST
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30-06 # CST
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30-05:00 # CDT
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30-05 # CDT
>
> 20
>
> 20:59
>
> 2059
>
> 20:59:30
>
> 205930
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30Z/2014-10-23T21:00:00Z
>
> 2014-10-23T20:59:30-05:00/2014-10-23T21:00:00-06
>
> PT1H
>
> PT1M
>
> P1M
>
> P1Y1M1W1DT1H1M1S
>
> *Note*
>
> AFAIU, ISO8601 does not specify standards for milliseconds, microseconds,
> nanoseconds, picoseconds, femtoseconds, or attoseconds.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ralph,
>
>
>
> QUDT:
>
>
>
> From https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering#qudt
>
> Homepage: http://www.linkedmodel.org/doc/qudt/1.1/
>
> Standard: http://qudt.org/
>
> Namespace: http://qudt.org/schema/qudt# <http://qudt.org/schema/qudt>
>
> xmlns: @prefix qudt: <http://qudt.org/schema/qudt#
> <http://qudt.org/schema/qudt>> .
>
> LOVLink: http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/vocabs/qudt
>
> QUDT (*Quantities, Units, Dimensions, and Types*) is an *RDF*
> <https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering#rdf> standard
> vocabulary for representing physical units.
>
> - QUDT is composed of a number of sub-vocabularies
> - QUDT maintains conversion factors for Metric and Imperial Units
>
>
>
> A few JSON-LD examples could be very helpful.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Ralph TQ [Gmail] <rhodgson@topquadrant.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Mark,
>
>
>
> QUDT is now a non-profit organization with the desire to join W3C to move
> forward on standardization. The management at NASA has given its approval
> for QUDT to proceed with this.
>
>
>
> Release 2 is a substantial body of work that is finally reaching a
> publication status. This involves the generation of content with support
> for LaTeX formatting. Examples can be seen at the following web pages:
>
>
>
> 1. The documentation on the QUDT schema -
> http://www.linkedmodel.org/doc/2015/DOC_schema-qudt-v2.0
> 2. An example of a LaTeX rendered instance of the Hartree Unit -
> http://www.linkedmodel.org/doc/2015/hartree
>
> The site www.linkedmodel.org has links to documentation for other
> ontologies and for those that QUDT depends on (VAEM, VOAG and DTYPE).
>
>
>
> All the QUDT ontologies are managed on a GitHub site. There is also a
> WordPress site.
>
>
>
> QUDT would welcome participation from others and once we become a member
> of W3C a working group would be important to establish. Perhaps we should
> have a discussion on how to get started?
>
>
>
> We have long believed that for (some) data to be truly linkable on the web
> it benefits from being quantified.
>
>
>
> I will send another email setting out the remaining work we are doing on
> the ontologies. In my view the most important of which is standardization
> of the QNames of the units (e.g, unit:SEC for second, unit:S for Siemen,
> and unit:KM-PER-SEC not unit:KM-PER-S) so that they are consistently
> reference-able and conforms with their standard abbreviations . This work
> is almost complete for SI units.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Ralph Hodgson, @ralphtq <http://twitter.com/ralphtq>
>
> TopQuadrant, Inc., www.topquadrant.com @TopQuadrant
> <http://twitter.com/topquadrant>
>
> *cell: **+1 781-789-1664 <%2B1%20781-789-1664>** / fax: 703 299-8330
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>
>
>
> On May 7, 2015, at 4:56 AM, Mark Harrison <mark.harrison@cantab.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear Martin,
>
> I understand your very valid concerns about Linked Data resources that are
> not supported and maintained and end us wasting time for developers.
> However, from this thread it also seems that there is quite some interest
> in having a well recognised ontology for units of measure in which units
> have corresponding stable URIs that link to definitions, UN ECE codes,
> conversion factors and offsets, etc. QUDT 1.1 made a very good start on
> this, although it had one or two inaccurate cross-references. For example,
> I found within http://qudt.org/vocab/unit#Grain the following nonsensical
> triple:
>
> <http://qudt.org/vocab/unit#Grain> skos:exactMatch <
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cereal> .
>
> There are some other gaps in QUDT 1.1, such as missing resources for units
> such as milligram, microgram - and because the SI base unit of mass is the
> kilogram, it is not sufficient to simply define the multipliers such as
> 'milli', 'micro', because we don't usually talk about milligrams as
> microkilograms, for example.
>
> Having said that, if QUDT 1.1 were updated, corrected, supported a more
> complete set of units and provided cross-references to the corresponding UN
> ECE Common Code values as strings, I think it (or something very like it)
> could be an extremely valuable resource for everyone, especially because of
> the conversion factors and offsets.
>
> The QUDT.org website appears to be last updated in March 2014 and there
> is some information and a presentation by Ralph Hodgson (copied) about the
> plans for release 2.0 of QUDT. However, I'm not sure whether that work has
> stalled or is under-resourced or is spending a long time in careful
> internal review. Maybe those of us who are interested in making this
> happen could offer to share the workload and accelerate the progress. In
> case NASA / TopQuadrant is no longer the place to host it, then perhaps we
> could reasonably ask W3C to host it in perpetuity and maintain a liaison
> with the UN, ISO and other relevant bodies to ensure that we're aware of
> their changes that should be reflected through maintenance updates to such
> a vocabulary.
>
> We're soon hoping to see much more structured data about products being
> published openly on the web as linked data, potentially including details
> about ingredients, nutrition and allergens. GS1 has already prepared begun
> drafting a web vocabulary [ see http://www.gs1.org/gtin_plus_public_review
> ] to help manufacturers and retailers express such information in much
> richer detail than they can currently using schema.org alone - and
> efforts are underway to harmonise this effort with schema.org to make
> life easier for developers. I expect that a stable supported ontology with
> URIs and Linked Data for units of measure along the lines of a QUDT 2.0
> could be far more useful to software developers than simply denoting a unit
> of measure by its UN ECE Common Code string. We can certainly do better
> than that. It could almost certainly avoid a large amount of duplicated
> effort in coding conversion factors and offsets and would also help to
> ensure that whether the product specifications are provided in SI units or
> non-SI units (as they are in different regions of the world), the same
> quantitative information is readily available so software applications,
> without ambiguity or unnecessary duplication of effort by developers.
>
> I hope that Ralph Hodgson can chime in with a brief status update on QUDT
> 2.0 - and also that those of us who would be interested in helping to
> accelerate this (or something similar) can step forward and offer to help
> with reviewing it or beta testing it - or filling in the gaps for the
> missing features.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> - Mark Harrison
>
>
>
>
> On 7 May 2015, at 09:08, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote:
>
> Dear Kingsley:
> Technically, as we agree, this is no big deal.
>
> But there are so many abandoned RDF / Semantic Web efforts rottening on
> the Web and wasting the time of developers who try to built something on
> top of it -- until they find out that the project is way out of date --
> that I do not see any gain in such a quick fix.
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 07 May 2015, at 01:25, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/6/15 6:31 PM, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote:
>
> The problem is not the one time generation. The problems are as follows:
>
> 1. Copyright - Are you allowed to republish the code set as RDF?
> 2. Sustainability - Are you commited to keep the URIs dereferencable, or
> will some domain grabber take the domain name once the creator has
> completed his/her PhD and lost interest.
> 3. Updates - Will you keep the RDF version in sync whenever the standard
> changes?
>
> Unless there is a clear "yes" to all three questions, it is better to use
> the official codes than derived URIs.
>
> Martin
>
>
> Martin,
>
> What's wrong with:
>
> <#someResolvableVariantOfIdentifier>
> a owl:Thing ;
> dcterms:identifier "{literal-variant-of-standard-identifier}" .
>
> Which can be further embellished by Linked Data publisher in their
> ontology/vocabulary by adding the following:
>
> dcterms:identifier
> a owl:InverseFunctionalProperty .
>
> Productive workflow:
>
> 1. Get the data dump in a spreadsheet
> 2. Save as CSV
> 3. Load into LOD or Google Refine
> 4. Map to relevant ontology (existing, or new)
> 5. Dump data into an RDF document
> 6. Publish (note: using # as indexical mechanism makes the publication
> Linked Open Data prinicples compliant off-the bat).
>
>
> It can be done quite easily. I deliberatly opted not to do it :)
>
>
> Kingsley
>
>
>
>
> On 06 May 2015, at 23:56, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How much time do you think it would take to generate RDF (and namespaced
> URIs) from the linked spreadsheet?
>
> Mappings to/from UN/CEFACT codes (as owl:sameAs mappings to strings) could
> certainly be useful.
>
> On May 6, 2015 4:31 PM, "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <
> martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> I think a validator should simply use the list of valid codes from the
> most recent UN/CEFACT document (available as MS Excel from
> http://www.unece.org/cefact/codesfortrade/codes_index.html).
>
> There might be unit of measurement ontologies out there that hold the
> UN/CEFACT Common Code string for a subset of all units as a literal value.
> But for validation, one should use the authoritative list from the Excel
> files (since they are updated from time to time).
>
> URIs are not better than strings for validation, because URIs are strings.
>
> Best wishes / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Martin Hepp
>
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>
>
> On 06 May 2015, at 20:34, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
> I notice that with QUDT there are SI conversion factors and complete URIs
> for each unit.
>
> Is there a schema for validation of "schema:QuantativeValues supports all
> UN/CEFACT Common Codes"?
>
> (A similar quandry as with MedicalCode; where URI namespaces (like icd10:)
> would be more helpful for terminological validation and disambiguation than
> plain string keys)
>
> On May 6, 2015 4:26 AM, "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <
> martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Wes,
> sorry for a very late reply:
>
> Actually you could easily use schema:QuantitativeValue for both time and
> volume, with SEC as the unit code for t and LTR as the unit code for
> liters, and link both via schema:valueReference, or better, and
> owl:subProperty thereof.
>
> For the principle, see
>
>
> http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Documentation/Structured_values_and_value_references
>
>
> schema:QuantativeValues supports all UN/CEFACT Common Codes for units,
> which should cover all you need:
>
>
>
> http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Documentation/UN/CEFACT_Common_Codes
>
> (Mind the full list in the public Excel files, the page just highlights a
> small subset.)
>
> Best wishes / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Martin Hepp
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> On 01 May 2015, at 13:45, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Wes,
>
> On 01/26/2014 07:20 AM, Wes Turner wrote:
>
> Say I am trying to share a tabular dataset. [1] There's metadata for
> the Dataset, and there's metadata for the particular columns (which
> applies to the particular data items).
>
> For example:
>
> t volume (liters)
> -----------------
> 1 1
> 2 0.7
> 3 0.5
> 4 0.3
> 5 0.1
>
> Questions
> ===========
> # Is there (a good) way to specify these units and quantities (in
> addition to XSD datatypes)?
>
> You might like to check out
> * https://iotdb.org/pub/iot-unit.html
>
> Cheers!
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