There's a huge discussion going on now on ontolog with a group focused on this. You might want to check it out. There's a list devoted to it: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/uom-ontology-std Links to archive of discussion, which is very active right now, from that page. There's also the OBO unit ontology. http://obofoundry.neurocommons.org/static/detail.cgi_id=unit.html -Alan
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Philipp Zaltenbach<zaltenb...@ontoprise.de> wrote: > Hi Marcos, > > if you are looking for a semantic-wiki based implementation of UoM check > out: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Custom_units > SMW allows you to handle and define your own UoM, being able of > automatically converting units. > > Regards, > Philipp > > Marcos Martínez schrieb: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I am looking for a way of automatically converting values associated >> to different units of measurement in a standardized manner. I know >> that there are several units of measurement ontologies [1] and also >> that a great job is being done in building a “Quantity and Unit of >> Measure Ontology-based standard”. Does anybody know how to use an >> ontology of measurement units to make the conversion between different >> values (e.g. converting 1000 kilograms into grams), or if there is any >> previous work trying to solve this issue? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> Marcos. >> >> [1] http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UoM >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swikig mailing list >> swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de >> http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/swikig >> > > -- > Philipp Zaltenbach > Professional Services > ontoprise GmbH - know how to use Know-how > --- > ontoprise presents the new SemanticMiner for SharePoint: > http://www.ontoprise.de/en/home/news/news-en/cebit-2009-ontoprise-presents-the-new-semanticminer-for-sharepoint/ > --- > An der RaumFabrik 29; 76227 Karlsruhe; Germany > phone: +49 721 509809-0; fax: +49 721 509809-11 > mailto:zaltenb...@ontoprise.de, www: http://www.ontoprise.de > Registered office: Karlsruhe, Germany; Register court: Mannheim, HRB 109540 > Managing directors: Prof. Dr. Juergen Angele, Dipl.Wi.-Ing. Hans-Peter Schnurr > > _______________________________________________ > swikig mailing list > swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de > http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/swikig > > _______________________________________________ swikig mailing list swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/swikig
