On Wed, January 27, 2010 3:37 am, Christoph LANGE wrote: > Dear James, dear all, > > yet another report on how the semantic web community represents units: > The > Statistical Core Vocabulary, designed for representing statistical data on > the > semantic web (http://sw-app.org/pub/eswc09-inuse-scovo.pdf), also deals > with units. Some very superficial first impressions: > > * Representing statistical facts (previously hidden in databases) in a > more > semantic way has a great potential; see the related approaches mentioned > in that paper. True indeed (though the number of "related approaches" was depressing) > * Statistical databases need units. > * SCOVO has a very basic ontology of units > * SCOVO is designed by several "big players" in the semantic web community > and > seems to work well for them; so I think they wouldn't be interested in They appear to be totally wedded to RDF > using OpenMath, but on the other hand: > * it could nevertheless make sense to contact them > * we might encounter them in future meetings on standardizing unit > representation > * maybe there is something that can be learnt from SCOVO I found this a useful reminder that we really ought to address the "RDF and OpenMath" issue.
James Davenport Recently: Visiting Full Professor, University of Waterloo Now back as: Lecturer on XX10190, CM30070, CM30078/50123, CM50209 Hebron & Medlock Professor of Information Technology, University of Bath OpenMath Content Dictionary Editor and Programme Chair, OpenMath 2009 IMU Committee on Electronic Information and Communication _______________________________________________ Om mailing list [email protected] http://openmath.org/mailman/listinfo/om
