Re: Scientific Measurements

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