If we want to make queries over quantities and units, we need a way of handling units in an uniform way so we can handle, say "miles per hour" and "km per hour" in the same way.
NASA-sponsored work on ontologies for quantities, units, dimensions, and data types: http://qudt.org/
If we want to make queries over quantities and units, we need a way of handling units in an uniform way so we can handle, say "miles per hour" and "km per hour" in the same way.
NASA-sponsored work on ontologies for quantities, units, dimensions, and data types: http://qudt.org/
Also, see also an attempt at an OASIS Stantard that didn't take: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=quomos -- a very simple analysis of the failure of that TC to reach critical mass is shown https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/quomos/201408/msg00000.html.
http://www.wurvoc.org/vocabularies/om-1.6/