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Re: [ontolog-forum] QUOMOS status

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From: Ralph Hodgson <ralphtq@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:35:02 -0800
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An update on QUDT.    (01)

QUDT will be revised soon to version 1.1. This will happen at the 
http://www.qudt.org site.    (02)

Also I have just completed an OWL version of the UNECE units, rev 7e, 
consisting of 2087 e-Commerce units. This ontology will also be placed at the 
QUDT site.    (03)

Ralph    (04)

On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Peter Yim wrote:    (05)

> Tara,
> 
> 
> Some of the links below are probably pertinent, and may have already
> shown up on your search:
> 
> [1]  http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UoM
> 
> [2]  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/quomos/charter.php
> 
> [3]  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=quomos
> 
> [4]  http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UoM_Ontology_Standard
> 
> [5]  http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009_Communique
> 
> A while back, Pat Hayes, Steve Ray, Jerry Smith and I put together a
> FAQ about the QUOMOS Project, which you can find useful too.
> It's at: 
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/UoM/Reference/QUOMOS_FAQ_20100105.pdf
> 
> 
> Regards.  =ppy
> --
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Tara Athan <taraathan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In a different thread, you mention the QUOMOS effort. I am putting
>> together a literature review on measurement ontologies (which as you
>> note are numerous and leave much to be desired) and would very much like
>> an update on the QUOMOS effort. Perhaps a link will be sufficient, as I
>> have not been able to find much beyond the original call.
>> 
>> thanks, Tara
>>> 
>>> In the QUOMOS effort, we used a different pitch for the BIPM
>>> (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) folk. We told them there
>>> should be a standard measurements ontology that they controlled, so that
>>> two dozen uneducated software engineering standards teams would have no
>>> excuse for building their own conflicting models and thus making a mess
>>> of 21st century international trade. But in a certain sense, we were
>>> just pitching the ontology to a different set of academics. Their
>>> primary concern is about what is to be measured, what the quality of the
>>> measurement is, and how the measurement and its quality are expressed.
>>> Those specifications are used in government specifications and contract
>>> rules. Industry folk rely on the references to the common standards, and
>>> their specialists use the details of the standards in designing their
>>> quality controls. The idea of the standard ontology is just to ensure
>>> that the BIPM knowledge is what is engineered into the standard form for
>>> the reasoning technologies that will supposedly be used in industry. It
>>> doesn't convey advantage in its own right.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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