- From: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:57:40 -0800
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- CC: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, semantic-web@w3.org
Dan Brickley wrote: > > How far can we go by overloading the existing datatyping mechanism? > ie. decorate literals with URIs that stand for particular encodings of > particular units? > I think the answer to this question rests on the meaning of = in 8km = 5miles (pretending that the arithmetic is precise and correct) Conceptually I think we could have units:kilometer being a datatype whose value space is distances and whose lexical space is the same as xsd:decimal, and its value space would (modulo rounding) be the same as units:mile but disjoint from units:squareMeter ... However I defer to others ... Jeremy
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