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Recommendations and discussions on ontology and RDF framework development
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Add provenance of numerical value of a Flow as a mathematical formula with variables #17

Open agneta20 opened 5 years ago

agneta20 commented 5 years ago

Add the possibility to document how the numerical value of a Flow has been calculated (when not being a direct measurement). The minimum would be to give the formula as a provenance information (already opened as a separate issue). A more advanced and preferable solution would be something corresponding to the @mathematicalRelation of the ecoSpold2 format that defines a mathematical formula which can also contain variables and which will fill the value of the flow if ecospold2:@isCalculatedAmount is TRUE. This is a very explicit and recommendable option for providing provenance information. In ecoSpold2 the formula are defined by a sub-set of the OpenFormula standard. Other RDF-related formula standards are described on the Wikipedia-page for MathML. It should be noted that uncertainty for a calculated number is calculated from the uncertainty of the contributing numbers plus any uncertainty on the mathematical relation itself.