consider W3C Cube for advanced Measurements

[VladimirAlexiev]

@OR13
If #297 is not adopted as too complex,
consider W3C Cube (qb). It has

• Observations that relate to StructureDefinitions and comprise a Dataset
• Dimensions that define the Cartesian space of each observation (i.e. there can be an observation for each combination of the dimensions)
• Measures that provide the observed values at each Cartesian point
• Attributes that further qualify the observation (eg measurement method, uncertainty)
• Slices that allow to fix some dimension values, and express related Observations more economically

schema:Observation is deficient in some aspects.
Eg it can't capture this because it doesn't have have multiple Measures in an Observation:

• A weather balloon is going up, and periodically takes observation of altitude, temperature, pressure, time.

[OR13]

yeah, I totally agree re schema:Observation it was a first attempt at getting something that works for Ag, Oil, Steel and E-Commerce.

cc @mprorock

[nissimsan]

We still haven't solved these requirements - this is a great suggestion.
Request for volunteers to pick this up.

[nissimsan]

Pending volunteers...?

[OR13]

Could use a JSON-LD example to make this more actionable.

[nissimsan]

@VladimirAlexiev, can you help out with a JSON-LD example, pls?

[nissimsan]

Deal with this together with #297.

Still pending volunteers and a JSON-LD example.

[nissimsan]

Recently we've been moving away from such sorts of generic frameworks. Denormalizing. From that perspective, I don't think this is a direction we should be going...

[mkhraisha]

We are in the process of simplifying observations, and this may be overkill.
Very little interest in working on it.