Agreed.

WKT strings in general need extra agreements on the string structure ie how to 
parse.






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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On 
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Sent: dinsdag 9 juli 2019 00:26
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Subject: Re: [topbraid-users] from property to constraint




On 8 Jul 2019, at 20:53, 'Bohms, H.M. (Michel)' via TopBraid Suite Users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

3. I found it strange that you are embedding a unit of measure into a string 
e.g., “2.40m”.

> well when the datatype is taken by the quantitykind...this is the only place 
> left when using simple datatype properties........
> its not that strange, often used  for GIS like coordinates etc. (general: 
> WKT-WellKnownText strings).
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text_representation_of_geometry (ex)


The WKT is not really very similar to doing a special encoding of UoM inside a 
datatype. One is encoding lists of lists, arrays, etc. (which RDF cannot handle 
or cannot handle very nicely) of numerical values as strings, and the other is 
simply taking shortcuts with the modelling. As QUDT and other similar UoM 
ontologies show, it is not difficult to model and encode values with a UoM in 
normal RDF that require no specialised tools. Using an odd datatype encoding 
extension means that only specialised tools that understand that encoding can 
do any calculations, comparisons, etc. over those values. If the UoM is 
modelled in a normal way, then all RDF tools (e.g. vanilla SPARQL endpoints) 
can be used out-of-the-box to do calculations, comparisons, etc.

Cheers,
David


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