Hi Jonathan,
Presumably you are referring to the Units Ontology and not ontologies in
general? The Units Ontology appears to be mainly a controlled vocabulary
with no formal definition of relationships between units (and IMHO, in
need of some work, as e.g. " microgram per kilogram per day" is
Hi Bernard,
I have thought about this a little. The biggest problem with using an
ontology is that there doesn't seem to be any possibility of a mechanism for
allowing user-defined units. The units ontology at present also doesn't
appear to contain enough information to perform units convers
Hi,
Is, alternatively, the use of an ontology for units also a consideration?
Terms from such an ontology could be applied to the annotation of semantic
metadata associated both with (i) model variables, as well as (ii) related
datasets.
Thoughts most welcome.
All the best,
Bernard
On 28 Sept
Hi,
Only had a quick read through but it looks good, perhaps a bit too
comprehensive for CellML and FieldML. Hard to tell if it will become *the*
standard for units though.
Steve
On 27 Sep 2011, at 01:04, David Brooks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've come across the Units Markup Language (UnitsML,
> htt
Hi,
I've come across the Units Markup Language (UnitsML,
http://unitsml.nist.gov/), which is a project of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology for encoding scientific units of measure in
XML. It is currently being standardised by OASIS (the Working Draft is
at
http://www.oasis-
