Re: Scientific Measurements

BTW, in his OWL book, Dean Alleman developed a few nice examples on how flexible unit conversion based GoodRelations structures for quantitative values works:

http://books.google.de/books?id=_qGKPOlB1DgC&lpg=PA291&ots=-YlcKUDIqK&dq=unit%20conversion%20sparql%20goodrelations&pg=PA291#v=onepage&q=unit%20conversion%20sparql%20goodrelations&f=false

Martin


On Jun 6, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Martin Hepp wrote:

> Have you had a look at
> 
> 
>    http://schema.org/QuantitativeValue
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> ?
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> This is from 
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>    http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#QuantitativeValue
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> 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 
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>    http://purl.org/vso/ns#fuelConsumption
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> I admit that the documentation of this powerful part of GoodRelations is insufficient; I will be working on a better documentation at
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>    http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Documentation/Quantitative_values 
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> which is currently just a stub.
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> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
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>> 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
>> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>> skype: kcoylenet
>> 
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