Ia gree with Diago. UCUM basicly is a terminological system.
GF Gerard Freriks +31 620347088 [email protected] Kattensingel 20 2801 CA Gouda the Netherlands > On 26 Jan 2018, at 09:41, Diego Boscá <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think there are several potential problems with this, and IMHO we are > stepping too much on what should be done in a terminology service (We are > literally talking about a 'public available UCUM service'). You can also ask > the terminology service what kind of unit code you have. Your implementation > could answer "arbitrary" for these new units. > > In my opinion, saying "here comes a mass unit code" is not much different > from "here comes a diagnosis code", and we say these in a completely > different way (a better way, if you ask me). > > Also, I'm not a big fan of "arbitrary" property, as feels like a "other" kind > of terminology code that is potentially dangerous as knowledge or terminology > advances, thus coexisting 'arbitrary' and 'new shiny type of measurements' > all mixed up. That's why I also expect these properties to be as derived from > the codes and not the other way around.
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