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Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] New Issue: dimension intervals
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 18:01:59 +0000
From: Richard Light
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On 08/11/2018 20:00, Martin Doerr wrote:
Dear Richard,
It requires a sort of datatype or encoding.
Assume unit = "ft&inches"
value = <3,6>
would that make sense?
In the xsd datatypes everything is in the value already.
The XSD datatypes all resolve to single values, so don't give a clear steer
from them as to how to deal with the 'multiple units' issue.
I can see what you're saying as regards a 'complex' datatype, but I can't find
examples on the Web of how the value would actually be encoded as an RDF value
which software agents could do anything useful with.
The best I have come up with is this document from 2002:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/datatyping/<http://infolab.stanford.edu/%7Emelnik/rdf/datatyping/>
which has some heavy hitters associated with it. Is this the sort of approach
you are proposing?
A slightly more complex example would be a geographical coordinate expressed as
latitude and longitude (both expressed as degrees, minutes and seconds).
Thanks,
Richard
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Richard Light
