Re: URIs for quantities and units defined within ISO 80000 and ISO 1000

Dear David,

I have consulted Jo Goodwin at the ISO/CS, who seems to be involved in this 
project. I will soon come back to you, when I have got the the reply from 
Jo.

Best regards
Anders

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anders J Thor" <athor@mech.kth.se>
To: "David Leal" <david.leal@caesarsystems.co.uk>
Cc: "Atsuko Saruhashi" <saruhashi@iso.org>; <public-xg-w3pm@w3.org>; 
<david.price@eurostep.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: URIs for quantities and units defined within ISO 80000 and ISO 
1000


> Dear David Leal,
>
> Many thanks for your interesting message. I do not think that I have been 
> in direct contact with ISO/TC 184 before. We do not have a liason yet. I 
> am afraid that I have not received an e-mail from Mrs. Saruhashi . 
> However, it does not matter now when I have received this e-mail.
>
> I foresee that the harmonized ISO/IEC 80000-series will be completed in 
> 2009 and then ISO 1000 will be withdrawn.
>
> Please let me know how I can contribute to your interesting work.
>
> Best regards
> Anders
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Leal" <david.leal@caesarsystems.co.uk>
> To: <athor@mech.kth.se>
> Cc: "Atsuko Saruhashi" <saruhashi@iso.org>; <public-xg-w3pm@w3.org>;
> <david.price@eurostep.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 6:37 PM
> Subject: URIs for quantities and units defined within ISO 80000 and ISO 
> 1000
>
>
>> Dear Mr. Thor,
>>
>> I believe Mrs. Saruhashi forwarded my previous e-mail on this subject to
>> you.
>>
>> There are many objects defined within ISO standards, which the Web
>> community
>> would like to reference by URI. The most fundamental of these are
>> quantities
>> and units, and this has been identified as a key requirement by both the
>> W3C
>> Product Modelling XG and the ISO TC184/SC4 "Industrial Data on the Web"
>> team.
>>
>> What would be the best way of raising this issue within ISO TC 12 and its
>> WGs?
>>
>> The use of URIs to identify objects is essential to our work, but the
>> reason
>> why may not be obvious to those not using Web technologies. The document
>> "Why URIs for quantities and units are important" is attached, which 
>> gives
>> a
>> brief explanation. I will be happy to expand on any issues which are
>> unclear.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> David Leal
>> (member of the W3C Product Modelling XG, co-convenor of the ISO TC184/SC4
>> "Industrial Data on the Web" team)
>>
>
>
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Received on Wednesday, 6 August 2008 15:38:02 UTC