Re: [ontolog-forum] scale / enumeration ontology?

[Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Erick,

  OBO ontologies [1] include biomedical investigations (OBI), measurements (IAO), qualities (PATO) and units. You can get alternate versions (e.g. OWL) at [2]

[1] http://www.obofoundry.org/

[2] http://www.berkeleybop.org/ontologies/

m.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:32 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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Carleton University
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