Hi, Erick,
Happy to see you show up.
Regarding to your question, why don't you check IAO?
What you are thinking has been discussed in that community. (01)
We did as quality measured_as "data type" things
such as Color measured_as "green"... (02)
Best,
Yu Lin (03)
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Erick Antezana
<erick.antezana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear ontolog-ers,
>
> I got the mission of building an (application?) ontology that will
> hold terms/concepts related to the measurement output of some
> biological experiments and analyses. Thus, I am wondering if there are
> already any effort that specifically captures concepts related to
> scales (e.g. "length", "weight") and/or enumerations (e.g. "colour"
> such as red, green, blue), which in turn would be "connected" to
> another ontology of units (which has terms such as centimeter,
> Celsius, Kg, etc...). Moreover, I am wondering whether such ontologies
> (if exists) capture "natural" data ranges such as 0 - 100 in the case
> of dealing with a percentage rating, or arbitrary ranges (e.g. 0-10),
> or min and max values... Typically, our final users assign a value to
> an observed feature, in some cases with the assistance of a machine or
> instrument (e.g. penetrometer ) and in other cases based on a pattern
> (colours from a palette having a defined set thereof); and finally, in
> other cases, they assign a value based on a simple (subjective) visual
> rating (e.g. a number from a range going from 0-10 to evaluate the
> ripening of a fruit or its coarseness where 0=worst, 5=good, 10=best).
>
> any pointer would be very appreciated,
> Erick
>
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