Quantities and Units of Measure ( [[UoM]])

See: Quantity and Unit of Measure Ontology-based Standard project incubation work. The [[UoM]] Ontolog-based Standard Working Group's project homepage is at: UoM_Ontology_Standard

[[UoM]] Resources & References*:

Available [[UoM]] Standards:

• the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM) — http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/guides/vim.html

• ISO/IEC 80000 - see: BIPM & http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/

• UN/ECE Rec. 20 - Codes for Units of Measure (UoM) used in international trade - see: http://www.unece.org/cefact/recommendations/rec_index.htm - ECE/TRADE/C/CEFACT/2009/24 (8 September 2009) & CEFACT/ICG/2009/IC011 (xls)

• Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) - http://unitsofmeasure.org/

• ... in development - OASIS Quantities and Units of Measure Ontology Standard (QUOMOS) - OASIS QUOMOS TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=quomos

Available [[UoM]] Ontologies:

• NASA SWEET 2.0 sciUnit ontology - ref. RobRaskin's 2009.06.19 presentation & PatCassidy's upload of that to the OOR-sandbox

• the Quantities, Units, Dimensions and Data Types (QUDT) Ontology - http://www.qudt.org/

• the OMG Quantities, Units, Dimensions, Values (QUDV) Ontology - http://www.omgwiki.org/OMGSysML/doku.php?id=sysml-qudv:qudv_owl

• gist Units-of-Measure ontology - ref. DaveMcComb's 2009.06.19 presentation

• HajoRijgersberg's 2009.07.15 post - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/UoM/Reference/available-UoM-ontologies/UoM_ontology--HajoRijgersberg_20090715/

• MMI / LuisBermudez's UCUM ontology - ref. ForestLin's 2009.07.24 post - owl file at: http://marinemetadata.org/ucum ... not sanctioned by the UCUM folks yet; awaiting validation & clarification on IPR issues.

• SUMO UnitOfMeasure ontology - see: http://sigma.ontologyportal.org:4010/sigma/Browse.jsp?kb=SUMO&lang=EnglishLanguage&flang=SUO-KIF&term=UnitOfMeasure - ref. AdamPease's 2011.03.10 post

• Measurement Units Ontology (MUO) - an ontology to represent units of measurement in RDF by Diego Berrueta and Luis Polo (Fundación CTIC)

Other [[UoM]] References:

• NIST - "International System of Units (SI)"

• Rijgersberg, Hajo, J.L. Top, M. Wigham - "Ontology of units of measure" - Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Jul 2009

• Stratford, Jonathan, J.H. Davenport - "Unit Knowledge Management" - Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, July 2008

• StanHuff, Sundak Ganesan et al. - all unit concepts that are in common use in medicine (developed by their authors at Intermountain Healthcare and HL7) - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/UoM/Reference/available-UoM-references/HL7-UoM-ref/

• GuntherSchadow, Clement [[McDonald]] et al. - The Unified Code for Units of Measure - http://www.unitsofmeasure.org/

• OMG SysML v1.2 - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/reference/UoM_Ontology_Standard/available-UoM-references/QUDV-Annex-C4-C5--OMG-SysML-v1-2_Oct-2009.pdf
  • see also: SysML/QUDV

• Masolo, Claudio - "Founding properties on measurement" - FOIS 2010

• GiancarloGuizzardi - "On the Representation of Quantities and their Parts in Conceptual Modeling" - FOIS 2010

Other Pertinent References:

• References from CharlesEhrlich in his 2010.01.07 presentation - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UoM_Ontology_Standard/ConferenceCall_2010_01_07#nid26DX

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