RE: Improvement of www.schema.org/menu

I know! ;-)
As a physicist I felt it was important to point out the distinction between
them.

On 16 Jan 2017 23:05, <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:

> Ø  Sorry to be pedantic ;-)
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> That’s not pedantry. Its accuracy. Important.
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> *From:* scenicviews.org@gmail.com [mailto:scenicviews.org@gmail.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Mark Harrison
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January, 2017 03:58
> *To:* Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>; Xavier Gonsalves <
> axv4444@gmail.com>; schema.org Mailing List <public-schemaorg@w3.org>;
> W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Improvement of www.schema.org/menu
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> Sorry to be pedantic ;-) , but in fact, the SI base unit for mass is the
> kilogram.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Base_units
> and http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP330/sp330.pdf (section 2.1.1.2) and
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> http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/kilogram.html
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> The gram is the base unit for mass in the old CGS system - but not in the
> modern SI system.
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> QUDT will be more useful and more complete when version 2.0 is finally
> released - and has very useful machine-readable triples for expressing the
> dimension of each unit (is it a mass, a length, etc.) and conversion
> factors and offsets between units that belong to the same physical
> dimension (e.g. to convert between various units of mass or between various
> units of length).
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> In GS1 and the GS1 web vocabulary, for the value of
> http://gs1.org/voc/unitCode we use a string value indicating a
> Measurement Unit from UN/ECE Recommendation 20 code tables, e.g. GRM for
> gram, KGM for Kilogram, MGM for milligram and MC for microgram.  A 2005
> edition of the code tables is available at http://www.unece.org/
> fileadmin/DAM/cefact/recommendations/rec20/rec20_rev3_Annex3e.pdf
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> Personally, I'd much prefer the QUDT approach but industry does currently
> use the UN/ECE Rec 20 code tables for expressing units of measure, even if
> some of these UN ECE code strings are completely opaque and non-intuitive,
> e.g. 28 = kilogram per square metre.
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://schema.org/NutritionInformation
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> http://schema.org/servingSize r: Text
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> "The serving size, in terms of the number of volume or mass"
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> Other NutritionInformation attributes have a r:ange of Mass.
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> - Does this suggest a need for a Volume class?
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> - Could/should the servingSize range be Quantity?
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> - Should Quantity have a 'unit' property with r: URL?
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>   http://schema.org/Quantity
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>   - QUDT defines URLs for many (powers of) physical units
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>     - Unfortunately, there are a number of vocabularies for physical units
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>   - The SI unit for Mass is always g(ram)
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> https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/units#rdf-and-units
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> https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/linkedreproducibility#csv-
> csvw-and-metadata-rows ... "Table with 7 metadata header rows"
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> On Monday, January 16, 2017, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
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> On 15 January 2017 at 07:42, Xavier Gonsalves <axv4444@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Many have talked and requested about this but w3 seems to avoid it.
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> > Schema should add more properties under restaurant menus like dish price,
> > cuisine, spiciness, dish name, ingredients, veg, nonveg, vegan category,
> > description .etc.. so that search engines can implement the following in
> the
> > future:
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> > https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2328869/google-tests-
> restaurant-menus-in-card-results/
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> > It can be ordered such that these properties can be put on the webpage of
> > the URL of the menu.
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> > Please look into it ASAP.
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> Please comment on the draft at http://webschemas.org/MenuItem in
> Github, https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1288
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> Dan
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