Dear James, dear all, yet another report on how the semantic web community represents units: The Statistical Core Vocabulary, designed for representing statistical data on the semantic web (http://sw-app.org/pub/eswc09-inuse-scovo.pdf), also deals with units. Some very superficial first impressions:
* Representing statistical facts (previously hidden in databases) in a more
semantic way has a great potential; see the related approaches mentioned in
that paper.
* Statistical databases need units.
* SCOVO has a very basic ontology of units
* SCOVO is designed by several "big players" in the semantic web community and
seems to work well for them; so I think they wouldn't be interested in using
OpenMath, but on the other hand:
* it could nevertheless make sense to contact them
* we might encounter them in future meetings on standardizing unit
representation
* maybe there is something that can be learnt from SCOVO
Cheers,
Christoph
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Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
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