Units of Measure

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Modified on 2008/05/28 17:21 by valentinedwv Categorized as Research

» Units of Measure

Discussion on units of measure are getting tiring.

Adopt a standard that has grammar rules that can be easily parsed.

The Unified Code for Units of Measure

it needs to take into account that scientiest use Natural units.

Dimensional_analysis

Wikipedia

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Java 7 will have unit converters. It will not help for items that have speciation, but it will help for other things

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Message from Jon Hourburg

... NIST has such an effort called UnitsML (http://unitsml.nist.gov/) that looks promising. MathML also includes unit descriptions (http://www.w3.org/TR/mathml-units/).

And Bora Beran:

There's also UCUM (Unified Code for Units of Measure) http://aurora.regenstrief.org/ucum and UDUNITS (of Unidata) http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/. UDUNITS is mostly used with NetCDF. GML path would probably lead to the use of UCUM since it is based on ISO and ANSI standards and leveraged by almost every GML Application Schema around.