Re: Scientific Measurements

Have you had a look at


    http://schema.org/QuantitativeValue

?

This is from 

    http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#QuantitativeValue

GoodRelations and provides a sophisticated way of modeling quantitative values properly, including value references ("measured at 20 degrees celsius"), ranges and point values, and a proper separation of units of measurements.

This pattern is heavily used e.g. for modeling car features, e.g. with 

    http://purl.org/vso/ns#fuelConsumption

I admit that the documentation of this powerful part of GoodRelations is insufficient; I will be working on a better documentation at

    http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Documentation/Quantitative_values 

which is currently just a stub.


Martin


On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:

> Alex, do you think that "non-scientific" and "scientific" can share a vocabulary? Or are the purposes too different?
> 
> It seems like *measurement* itself is general enough to be usable in nearly all contexts.
> 
> kc
> 
> On 6/5/13 9:11 AM, Alex Milowski wrote:
>> I'm curious if there are any of you working on annotating scientific
>> measurements.  Specifically, I'm looking for structured values that
>> would contain properties such as:
>> 
>>    * "the target quantity" - e.g. air temperature, luminosity, etc.
>>    * measurement method
>>    * SI units
>>    * expected error
>>    * category (e.g. surface air temperature vs atmospheric air temperature)
>> 
>> Most of my examples come out of weather data but I've also been looking
>> at the measurements used by astronomers as well.
>> 
>> In fact, the IVOA's UCD (Unified Content Descriptors) [1] is an
>> interesting approach to creating tuples that are backed by some kind of
>> scientific measurement semantics.  Their approach hasn't been
>> translated, as far as I know, into any kind of RDF-aware schema.
>> 
>> [1] http://www.ivoa.net/documents/latest/UCD.html
>> 
>> --
>> --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
> 
> -- 
> Karen Coyle
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> 

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