- From: Bijan Parsia <bijan@clarkparsia.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:27:58 +0100
- To: public-xg-w3pm@w3.org
Hi folks,
As promised, I've a paper on handling quantities in OWL including unit
conversion and dimensional analysis. Here's a link:
<http://clarkparsia.com/files/pdf/units-owled2008-eu.pdf>
(BTW, David, I'm sorry I missed your poster for ISWC. The w3c was
blacklisting me for a while ;))
The key point is to build quantity support directly into OWL rather
than to have an ontology based approach. I think the advantages in
usability, clarity, and expressiveness are well worth the increased
difficulty of extensibility. I'll be releasing the "preprocessing"
version of the implementation in the near future so people will be
able to play with it. We plan to add this to the OWL API and to Pellet
directly.
I'd very much love feedback about what base dimensions, base units,
names should be supported. Other feedback, of course, welcome.
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Cheers,
Bijan.
http://clarkparsia.com
Received on Thursday, 21 August 2008 02:16:06 UTC