WIP Units Pattern #607
WIP Units Pattern #607
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as per discussion on https://discuss.okfn.org/t/table-schema-units-pattern/6573
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@Stephen-Gates what is needed to get this complete? |
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@rufuspollock I put this up to stimulate conversation. I guess we need to resolve if we adopt the suggestion on the forum about using an existing specification UCUM, ISO 80000, BIPM. |
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@Stephen-Gates have you looked at any of those specs in detail? UCUM seems pretty heavy duty - is there a subset of that we could adopt / summarize? We really just want something relatively simple that fits the 80/20 rule ... Re ISO 80000 - is that open? If not that would be an issue for us ... The BIPM stuff looks good though very physically oriented and fundamental. /cc @dr-shorthair |
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@rufuspollock I have not looked at those specifications. There also other references in #216 (comment). If these are open specifications and appropriate, I'm happy to adopt. I wonder if any proposals in the Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Programme identified this need and could finish this work? /cc @lwinfree |
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hi @Stephen-Gates 👋 we haven't come across any proposals from the tool fund related to this (I think that is what you meant, the fellows haven't started yet and aren't proposing projects) |
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UCUM may look heavy duty (though I don't think it is, really). But it provides an approach to build any unit-of-measure-symbol from the atomic elements. This gets over the problem that any static set will come up short. A static list might look like 80-20, but what do you say to the people that need one of the 20 (which is still a lot of applications!). |
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Thanks @dr-shorthair, I'll have another go at this pattern to align with UCUM and avoid the 80:20 problem. |
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@Stephen-Gates let's move discussion here back into the #537 and then come back to this PR (or open a new one). |
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Closing now as has merge conflicts. Would love to get something like this in ... |
as per discussion on https://discuss.okfn.org/t/table-schema-units-pattern/6573