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Set of taxonomies to use with the ontology like product types, units and facets.
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Feature Request: Add type of measure and scale and/or relationships #7

Open mkllnk opened 1 year ago

mkllnk commented 1 year ago

Implementing the interpretation of measurements, I'm mapping all units into a common, scalable data format consisting of:

This could be done in the DFC Connector to not repeat it in every application but we could also store it in the measures.json. It contains the name already. It could either have one of the three types and a scale or each measure could refer to a reference measure of that type with scale. For example, a six-pack could say it's 6 x piece. A millilitre would be 0.001 x litre. We could use SI base units for this.

It would enable every application to compute the total weight or volume of a product without knowing all units. And if the DFC adds a Li (Chinese mile) to the database then all applications would understand it without adding any logic.

RaggedStaff commented 7 months ago

We have identified the QUDT ontology to align with for unit conversion.

@Alcoz will match our measures values with sameAs

We need to select which units to link

mkllnk commented 7 months ago

I guess that you are referring to https://qudt.org/. Looks comprehensive, and huge.

I wonder if any semantic web system has to know most of the semantic web ontologies because it's all connected. :wink:

RaggedStaff commented 7 months ago

I guess that you are referring to https://qudt.org/. Looks comprehensive, and huge.

Yep, sorry not clear. I was rushing.

We won't be using all of it - just referencing the measures we need to with SameAs & that will allow apps to pull in the conversion logic.

I wonder if any semantic web system has to know most of the semantic web ontologies because it's all connected. 😉

Definitely... and, it seems to me, no-one has that knowledge & wheels are being reinvented all over the place! :roll_eyes: