[okfn-labs] Units protocol

Sun Jun 2 17:56:37 UTC 2013

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Chalk, Stuart <schalk at unf.edu> wrote:

> In the U.S. the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has
> been working on UnitsML (http://unitsml.nist.gov).  This is a standard
> XML representation of units and quantities that is currently being balloted
> through OASIS  (https://www.oasis-open.org).
>

Wow!  Only OASIS could spend 7 years specifying how to specify units.  Of
course, when they defined 50+ new "simple" elements plus a bunch of complex
ones and need an entire web site to describe it, it becomes less surprising.

Here's Freebase's take on measurement units, systems of units, and their
relationships:
http://www.freebase.com/measurement_unit<https://www.freebase.com/measurement_unit>

One nice thing about it is that it lets you see the use of the units in
context, which units are popular, how they're used, etc.

Tom
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