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[cellml-discussion] UnitsML


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  • From: bdb at ebi.ac.uk (Bernard de Bono)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] UnitsML
  • Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:34:23 +0100

Hi,

Is, alternatively, the use of an ontology for units also a consideration?
Terms from such an ontology could be applied to the annotation of semantic
metadata associated both with (i) model variables, as well as (ii) related
datasets.

Thoughts most welcome.

All the best,

Bernard


On 28 September 2011 09:49, Steve McKeever <Steve.McKeever at
cs.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
> Only had a quick read through but it looks good, perhaps a bit too
> comprehensive for CellML and FieldML. Hard to tell if it will become *the*
> standard for units though.
> Steve
>
> On 27 Sep 2011, at 01:04, David Brooks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've come across the Units Markup Language (UnitsML,
> http://unitsml.nist.gov/), which is a project of the National Institute of
> Standards and Technology for encoding scientific units of measure in XML. It
> is currently being standardised by OASIS (the Working Draft is at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/42538/UnitsML-Guide-v1.0-wd01.pdf
> ).
>
> Should UnitsML be embedded in a future version of CellML? In FieldML? To
> become the preferred way to specify units in the various MLs??
>
>
> Regards,
> Dave
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