Re: URIs / Ontology for Physical Units and Quantities

So, the UN/CEFACT to publish RDF would require generating some triples from
an excel document, and publishing it with a permalink URI?

* It seems odd to be relying upon non-URI keys with Linked Data.
* It would be very easy to publish an RDF version of this crucial dataset

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:31 PM, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org <
martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

> The problem is not the one time generation. The problems are as follows:
>
> 1. Copyright - Are you allowed to republish the code set as RDF?
> 2. Sustainability - Are you commited to keep the URIs dereferencable, or
> will some domain grabber take the domain name once the creator has
> completed his/her PhD and lost interest.
> 3. Updates - Will you keep the RDF version in sync whenever the standard
> changes?
>
> Unless there is a clear "yes" to all three questions, it is better to use
> the official codes than derived URIs.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> > On 06 May 2015, at 23:56, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How much time do you think it would take to generate RDF (and namespaced
> URIs) from the linked spreadsheet?
> >
> > Mappings to/from UN/CEFACT codes (as owl:sameAs mappings to strings)
> could certainly be useful.
> >
> > On May 6, 2015 4:31 PM, "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <
> martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> > I think a validator should simply use the list of valid codes from the
> most recent UN/CEFACT document (available as MS Excel from
> http://www.unece.org/cefact/codesfortrade/codes_index.html).
> >
> > There might be unit of measurement ontologies out there that hold the
> UN/CEFACT Common Code string for a subset of all units as a literal value.
> But for validation, one should use the authoritative list from the Excel
> files (since they are updated from time to time).
> >
> > URIs are not better than strings for validation, because URIs are
> strings.
> >
> > Best wishes / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> >
> > Martin Hepp
> >
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> >
> >
> > > On 06 May 2015, at 20:34, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > I notice that with QUDT there are SI conversion factors and complete
> URIs for each unit.
> > >
> > > Is there a schema for validation of "schema:QuantativeValues supports
> all UN/CEFACT Common Codes"?
> > >
> > > (A similar quandry as with MedicalCode; where URI namespaces (like
> icd10:) would be more helpful for terminological validation and
> disambiguation than plain string keys)
> > >
> > > On May 6, 2015 4:26 AM, "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <
> martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Wes,
> > > > sorry for a very late reply:
> > > >
> > > > Actually you could easily use schema:QuantitativeValue for both time
> and volume, with SEC as the unit code for t and LTR as the unit code for
> liters, and link both via schema:valueReference, or better, and
> owl:subProperty thereof.
> > > >
> > > > For the principle, see
> > > >
> > > >
> http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Documentation/Structured_values_and_value_references
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > schema:QuantativeValues supports all UN/CEFACT Common Codes for
> units, which should cover all you need:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Documentation/UN/CEFACT_Common_Codes
> > > >
> > > > (Mind the full list in the public Excel files, the page just
> highlights a small subset.)
> > > >
> > > > Best wishes / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> > > >
> > > > Martin Hepp
> > > >
> > > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > > > martin hepp
> > > > e-business & web science research group
> > > > universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
> > > >
> > > > e-mail:  martin.hepp@unibw.de
> > > > phone:   +49-(0)89-6004-4217
> > > > fax:     +49-(0)89-6004-4620
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> > > >          http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
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> > > >
> > > > Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On 01 May 2015, at 13:45, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <
> perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Wes,
> > > > >
> > > > > On 01/26/2014 07:20 AM, Wes Turner wrote:
> > > > >> Say I am trying to share a tabular dataset. [1] There's metadata
> for
> > > > >> the Dataset, and there's metadata for the particular columns
> (which
> > > > >> applies to the particular data items).
> > > > >>
> > > > >> For example:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> t   volume (liters)
> > > > >> -----------------
> > > > >> 1  1
> > > > >> 2  0.7
> > > > >> 3  0.5
> > > > >> 4  0.3
> > > > >> 5  0.1
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Questions
> > > > >> ===========
> > > > >> # Is there (a good) way to specify these units and quantities (in
> > > > >> addition to XSD datatypes)?
> > > > > You might like to check out
> > > > > * https://iotdb.org/pub/iot-unit.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> >
>
>


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