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

For this reason, QualitativeValue has always has a valueReference property which can be used to provide contextual information (e.g. the temperature at which another value was obtained).

See

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

http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1.html#valueReference

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On 04 Sep 2014, at 15:20, Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:09 PM, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> Conceptually, I think there is no relevant difference between a quantitative value and a measurement, since all what we process in computer systems are abstractions of reality, so any qualitative value represented in any computer system is essentially tied to a measurement activitity (except for values generated randomly or algorithmically, but with a wider notion of what "measurement" means, that could well be covered, too).
> 
> +1 Looking for relevant differences is key.
> 
> Cheers,
> Niklas
>  
> 
> Martin
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> 
> 
> On 04 Sep 2014, at 14:59, Tom Grahame <tom.grahame@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
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> >
> > On 04/09/2014 10:51, "Markus Lanthaler" <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >> - Is quantityValue really required? Can't a Measurement be a
> >> QuantitativeValue at the same time?
> >
> > As I interpret the examples, the Measurement is the activity (a form of
> > observation) and the QuantitativeValue an outcome of the activity, so they
> > are different things.
> >
> > I¹m not sure what is correct but the problem may stem from this part of
> > the proposal, in the Terminology section, where I think Measurement may
> > need to settle one way or the other:
> > "The term Measurement may refer to act of measuring (its verb form) or the
> > result of that act (its noun form).²
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> 
> 
>

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