Re: New Proposal - Measurement (in support of describing sports statistics)

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Jason Johnson (BING) <jasjoh@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> All,
>
> I have published a new draft (1.1) of this proposal that incorporates
> updates based on community feedback thus far.  Please take a look and let
> me know how you like the updates.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Johnson (BING) [mailto:jasjoh@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 10:43 AM
> To: Mike Bergman; Simon.Cox@csiro.au; public-vocabs@w3.org
> Subject: RE: New Proposal - Measurement (in support of describing sports
> statistics)
>
> +1
>
> Thank you for sharing Simon :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Bergman [mailto:mike@mkbergman.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:56 PM
> To: Simon.Cox@csiro.au; Jason Johnson (BING); public-vocabs@w3.org
> Subject: Re: New Proposal - Measurement (in support of describing sports
> statistics)
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thank you; these two references are super.
>
> Mike
>
> On 8/28/2014 6:38 PM, Simon.Cox@csiro.au wrote:
> > If you are dabbling in this area, possibly worth aligning terminology
> > with VIM [1], and standards In the technical community such as ISO
> > 19156 O&M (summarized at [2] and links). ‘Measurement’ is generally
> > understood as a special case of ‘observation’, being a value
> > estimation event whose result is a scaled number (i.e. a ‘quantity’).
> >
> > [1] http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/guides/vim.html
> >
> > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_and_Measurements
> >
> > *From:*Jason Johnson (BING) [mailto:jasjoh@microsoft.com]
> > *Sent:* Thursday, 28 August 2014 4:08 AM
> > *To:* public-vocabs@w3.org
> > *Subject:* New Proposal - Measurement (in support of describing sports
> > statistics)
> >
> > In order to support describing sports statistics, we need the ability
> > to describe measurements that happen over a certain time period, where
> > the value of the measurement can either be a quantity or a rate.  Our
> > current schema.org vocabulary is not sufficient to cover these needs
> > but models, somewhat inconsistently, various aspects of it.  This
> > proposal aims to clean up the existing vocabulary a bit and introduce
> > new terminology to meet the needs of describing sports statistics.
> >
> > Impacted classes and properties include:
> >
> > http://schema.org/StructuredValue
> >
> > http://schema.org/QuantativeValue
> >
> > http://schema.org/value
> >
> > http://schema.org/unitCode
> >
> > The Sports proposal is dependent upon review and approval of this
> > proposal or similar alternative.  The ItemList proposal also takes
> > advantage of this proposal.
> >
> > https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Measurement
> >
> > https://www.w3.org/wiki/File:Schema.orgMeasurement.pdf
> >
> > I look forward to your timeline feedback.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > *Jason Johnson*
> >
> > Microsoft | Bing
> >
>
>


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