I believe that anything between brackets can be considered a correct UCUM

2016-05-18 14:35 GMT+02:00 Bakke, Silje Ljosland
<[email protected]>:
> Awesome! These can be classified into UCUM, non-UCUM and just plain wrong:
>
> UCUM:
> 1/min, Hz, Hz/s, U, U/l, cm2, cm[H20], d, daPa, daPa/s, deg, h, kHz, kPa, kg, 
> kg/m2, l, l/min, l/s, m, m2, mV, mg, mg/dl, mg/l, min, ml, ml/d, ml/ml, ml/s, 
> ml/wk, mm, mm/h, mm2, mm[H20], mm[H20]/s, mm[Hg], mmol/l, pg, pmol/l, s,
>
> Non-UCUM:
> /d, /h, /min, /mo, /wk, Ashman units, 10*12/l, 10*6/l, 10*6/mm3, 10*9/l, , 
> IU, cc, dB, fl, , fl oz, ft, in, in2, lb, lb/in2, mIU/l, millisec, oz(avdp), 
> °, °C, °F, µmol/
>
> Just plain wrong:
> gm, gm/d, gm/l, gm/wk (gm == "gram meter", not "gram")
> mmho (supposed to be mm/h or mm.h? Does anyone know which archetype this 
> comes from?)
>
> Not 100% sure:
> {Volume/Volume}
>
> So quite a few units in archetypes are actually UCUM-compatible, but there 
> are plenty which aren't, and some which are wrong and can be badly 
> misinterpreted.
>
> Oh, and UCUM does allow non-units to be represented using curly braces, like 
> {puff} or {tablet} as symbols for the default unit '1'.
>
> Regards,
> Silje
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openEHR-technical [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Eric Browne
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:03 PM
> To: For openEHR technical discussions <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: UCUM code in body temperature archetype
>
> I just did a bulk download of 133 Observation archetypes from ckm.openehr.org 
> and extracted the following list of units:-
>
> /d, /h, /min, /mo, /wk, 1/min, 10*12/l, 10*6/l, 10*6/mm3, 10*9/l, Ashman 
> units, Hz, Hz/s, IU, U, U/l, [pH], cc, cm, cm2, cm[H20], d, dB, daPa, daPa/s, 
> deg, fl, fl oz, ft, gm, gm/d, gm/l, gm/wk, h, in, in2, kHz, kPa, kg, kg/m2, 
> l, l/min, l/s, lb, lb/in2, m, m2, mIU/l, mV, mg, mg/dl, mg/l, millisec, min, 
> ml, ml/d, ml/ml, ml/s, ml/wk, mm, mm/h, mm2, mm[H20], mm[H20]/s, mm[Hg], 
> mmho, mmol/l, oz(avdp), pg, pmol/l, s, {Volume/Volume}, °, °C, °F, µmol/
>
> I did this with a script and have not manually validated this list visually 
> in the ADL.
>
> regards,
> eric
>
> Eric Browne
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> skype: eric_browne
>
>
>> On 18 May 2016, at 8:35 pm, Thomas Beale <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>> the reason it is a String is because we have always treated UCUM units as 
>> parseable strings. E.g.
>> kg.m^-2
>>
>> and
>>
>> kg/m^2
>> are parseable according to UCUM's grammar into an expression that has a 
>> single meaning, and can also be equated to e.g. 'kPa' (which is itself 
>> parseable and so on).
>> - thomas
>> On 18/05/2016 10:05, Daniel Karlsson wrote:
>>> So, right now the DV_QUANTITY.units is a String, perhaps it should be 
>>> DV_CODED_TEXT?
>>>
>>> /Daniel
>>
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