Re: [uom-ontology-std] An UoM Ontology based on UCUM v1.6

["Christopher Spottiswoode" <cms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]



Wow!

 

Following the links below soon reveals the first paragraph of the UCUM terms and conditions of use to be this:

1) To prevent the dilution of the purpose of the Licensed Materials, i.e., that of providing a definitive standard for identifying units of measures in electronic documents and messages, users shall not use any of the Licensed Materials for the purpose of developing or promulgating a different standard for identifying units of measure, regardless of whether the intended use is in the field of medicine, or any other field of science or trade.

While it is easy to have some sympathy with its authors' bold intention, have they not with that ruling expressly disallowed any progressive use of the UCUM product by the Ontolog UoM (or any other) project?

 

On the other hand, since the properties of standard units of measure can hardly be any body's property, maybe the authors and publishers of UCUM, like King Canute, should quit trying to stop the tide from rolling on?

 

Christopher

----- Original Message -----

From: Forest Lin

To: uom-ontology-std

Cc: Clem Joseph McDonald

Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:25 PM

Subject: Re: [uom-ontology-std] An UoM Ontology based on UCUM v1.6

The following lines were copied from:
http://marinemetadata.org/community/teams/ont/ogcowlharmonization/ontrep
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UCUM Units

           NS: http://marinemetadata.org/ucum

           description:  The Unified Code for Units of Measure in OWL

           contributor: Luis Bermudez

           source: Created from an XML document version 1.6 available at http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/UCUM/. Using    

                           http://marinemetadata.org/ucumtoowl.xslt

         subject: units

 URLMoreInformation: http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/UCUM 

 HTML view of the ontology

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Best Wishes,
Lin Zhang





--- 09年7月24日，周五, Forest Lin <linforests@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 写道：

发件人: Forest Lin <linforests@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
主题: [uom-ontology-std] An UoM Ontology based on UCUM v1.6
收件人: "uom-ontology-std" <uom-ontology-std@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
抄送: "Clem Joseph McDonald" <cmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
日期: 2009年7月24日,周五,上午12:07

An UoM Ontology (based on UCUM v1.6) created by Luis Bermudez MMI:

The Unified Code for Units of Measure in OWL created by MMI

URL:
http://marinemetadata.org/ucum

Related URL:
http://marinemetadata.org/references/ucumunits

Best Wishes,
Lin Zhang

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