Matthew,
Unlike the 15926 RDL the eOTD does not seek to create terminology (as you
say there is so much of it out there already) it seeks to "reference" the
terminology from authoritative sources (consensus organizations) and provide
(1) a consistent public domain identifier (2) a free open identifier
resolution service, (3) a mapping registry and (4) usage statistics to allow
terminology to be ranked according to use.
Finally a single source for the UoM would be nice but somehow I do not
expect ISO to include UoMs like "Bolt" as in a bolt of cloth.
Peter Benson (01)
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Dear Peter, (03)
I think you are missing the point. (04)
> Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] URIs for quantities, units and scales
>
> That is precisely what the ECCMA open Technical Dictionary (eOTD) does.
> It
> provides a central open registry of concepts and their terminology. It
> also
> assigns a public domain identifier. (05)
<snip> (06)
> Almost forgot, the eOTD includes units of
> measure
> and currencies, basically all concepts needed to describe individuals,
> organizations, locations, goods, services, assets, processes, rules and
> regulations. (07)
[MW] Yes, and so does the ISO 15926 Reference Data Library, and probably a
dozen
more like them (at least). Doesn't that strike you as a waste? The idea here
is that
there is one authoritative source for UoM, and that would be BIPM (or their
ISO
incarnation). They would provide identifiers, and the rest of us would just
use them.
Naturally, they would make this available on the web. For once this could
actually lead
to a reduction in the amount of data around, as well as an increase in
consistency. (08)
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