There
is a ?UnitsML? technical committee within OASIS that should be able to help you
directly....
See:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=unitsml
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[mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Osterman,
Andrew
Sent: 12 May 2009 22:26
To: Ontology Summit 2009;
Graves, Henson
Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Progressing a Units
Ontology - Japanese /Chinese
Japanese
has a completely unique measuring/counting system.
Kimonos,
whales, pens, floor mats, ?but all of this requires multi-language
and
cross language capability for metadata.
Is
there a group handling Japanese/Chinese metadata and ontology
systems?
We
are build a US Government system for managing global operations with global
language
domains; and including the metadata structures for handling
ontologies.
Is
there a group that is working on this?
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From:
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[mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Duane
Nickull
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:03 PM
To: Ontology
Summit 2009; Graves, Henson
Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Progressing
a Units Ontology - Now
This might be a
great place to perform some ontology work which would demonstrate a huge benefit
to society. The WCO has major issues mapping to and from various
languages for UoM. For example, in Japan, you use a completely different
counting system for anything that is flat. Even thinks in North America
have vastly different units of measure. Mapping each of these ontology
concepts to terms in various languages would be a huge issue. Think about
these units of measure:
A dozen eggs
A ?loaf? of bread, but also has
weight
Apples are not sold each in most places but by aggregate
weight
Liquids are sold by volume
Long things are often sold in
lengths
Flat things are often sold in square feet or meters
Firewood is
sold by volume (chords), processed timber is sold by units, square feet, length
and other measures. They all come from trees.
...
This list goes
on and on.
I bet there would be funding for this type of
work.
D
On 5/10/09 12:14 PM, "David Leal" <david.leal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear
Henson,
I agree with your comments, but the terminology is difficult.
See:
ISO 31-0:1992 - Quantities and units - Part 0 - General principles,
Clause 2.1:
"Physical quantities may be grouped together into categories
of quantities
which are mutually comparable. Lengths, diameters, distances,
heights,
wavelengths and so on would constitute such a category. Mutually
comparable
quantities are called "quantities of the same kind."
"If a
particular example of a quantity from such a category is chosen as
a
reference quantity called the <em>unit</em>, then any other
quantity from
this category can be expressed in terms of this unit, as a
product of this
unit and a number."
>From this I deduce that:
-
The length 2.3 m is a "quantity".
- Length is a "quantities of the same
kind". The synonym "quantity category"
is also used implicitly used in the
text.
I don't think that the ISO 31-0 terminology is ideal (I do not know
whether
ISO 80000 is the same). However, it is important to have an onotology
which
uses the same terminology of the standards from which it is derived.
This is
why it is necessary to have ISO TC12 on board.
The second
paragraph worries me - this is true for some "quantities of the
same kind",
but not others. Perhaps after discussion we can define the
subclass of
"quantities of the same kind" for which this is true.
Best
regards,
David
p.s. I have take the liberty of cc'ing this to the
ontology summit to see if
the discussion "rings any bells" with
others.
At 11:05 08/05/2009 -0500, you wrote:
> Dear
David,
>This is the beginning of a good idea. My comments will be a
bit random
>as I have not been thinking about this lately. However
in answer, I
>believe that length is an example of what upper ontologies
call a
>Quantity. Length would be a specialization of quantity.
Quantity is
>what I belive is called a "reaified" class. Quantities
can be
>measured/computed in various ways using different kinds of units.
I
>believe that a meter is a unit of length measurement. We have had
a lot
>of discussion of this stuff which I have forgotten. What I
say may be
>wrong, but perhaps it will prompt you to take the next shot at
it. I
>believe that upperontologies use "haslength" as a role that
takes a
>value in the length quantity space, and haslengthinmeters is
the
>composition of haslenght and some "coordination function" defined on
the
>quantity which takes numeric or ordinal values. Let me know
what you
>think
>Regards
>-
Henson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Leal [mailto:david.leal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent:
Friday, May 08, 2009 10:52 AM
>To: Graves, Henson; vicki.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject:
RE: [ontology-summit] Progressing a Units Ontology - Now
>
>Dear
Henson,
>
>Perhaps we would start with the statement: "The metre is
a unit of
>length."
>
>1) What sort of thing is
"length"?
>
>2) What sort of things can have a
unit?
>
>3) What does "unit of" add to the statement "The metre is a
length"?
>
>4) In the statement "The metre is a length", what does
"is a" mean?
>
>With an agreed answer to each of these, I think we
would be near a first
>deliverable.
>
>Best
regards,
>David
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