On 10/1/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think $ is a unit of measuring currency, and barrel is a unit
of measuring oil, which in this case is the product the currency
references.
I disagree. There are plenty of other things that can be sold by the
barrel, and I doubt there are
On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:16 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote:
I think it's fairly clear that $ is a unit of currency, 'barrel' is a
measure of volume, and $/barrel is a measure of currency/volume in its
own right, similar to other composite measures like m.p.h.
Sure we can conceptualize it like that, but
Here are some additional examples from the Web of currency mixed with
measures, some of which differ from the $__ per barrel pattern and a
suggested new conceptualization that seems to work with them.
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples#Real-World_Examples
Here is another
On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote:
Let me know what you think. I'll put this on the wiki later.
The presence of UNECE codes for various units is encouraging. This
proposal is shaping up nicely. Could you think of other client uses
for just the measurement format? Already
On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote:
Here are some additional examples from the Web of currency mixed
with measures, some of which differ from the $__ per barrel
pattern and a suggested new conceptualization that seems to work
with them.
Scott Reynen wrote:
I think this is a good example of the benefits of modularization. I
think all of these various measurements would be more useful if they
were more widely published, and I think the best way to get them
widely published is to keep them as separate microformats addressing
Colin wrote:
This proposal is shaping up nicely. Could you think of other client
uses for just the measurement format? Already described in this thread
were some excellent uses for measurement + currency (e.g. searching
job listings).
Thanks Colin. For just the measurement format, of course
Colin wrote:
This proposal is shaping up nicely. Could you think of other client
uses for just the measurement format? Already described in this thread
were some excellent uses for measurement + currency (e.g. searching
job listings).
Thanks Colin. For just the measurement format, of course
Scott,
Please ignore my last post on the subject. As Andy M. pointed to me in
another thread, I took an extreme interpretation of the process. Mea
culpa. And sorry in advance for this long post.
On the subject of what is useful to do now with currency, I agree with
you that limiting the
On Sep 29, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote:
I don't think Lorenzo is talking of: *currency amount per item/
product* as your title and example imply (that, I agree, is a non-
starter)
but of *currency amount per unit of measurement* (which is widely
used - see for instance:
Scott,
My feeling is that if we must start with the simplest form of useful
data and pave the cow paths, then price in hListing is good enough for
me, and there is no need to pave that currency path for now, or even
discuss it, at least not on this discussion list:
* Google says that the
I don't think Lorenzo is talking of: *currency amount per item/product*
as your title and example imply (that, I agree, is a non-starter)
but of *currency amount per unit of measurement* (which is widely used -
see for instance: http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/, although not in the
context of
One little correction in the text below.
The following rules should be used:
* unit is optional
* if unit is present, then value is optional, and if value not
present, then it is assumed to be 1.
Guillaume
Guillaume Lebleu wrote:
I don't think Lorenzo is talking of: *currency amount
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