[Crm-sig] Fwd: New Issue: dimension intervals

[Richard Light]

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Subject:        Re: [Crm-sig] New Issue: dimension intervals
Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 18:01:59 +0000
From:   Richard Light <richard at light.demon.co.uk><mailto:richard at light.demon.co.uk>
To:     crm-sig at ics.forth.gr<mailto:crm-sig at ics.forth.gr>



On 08/11/2018 20:00, Martin Doerr wrote:
Dear Richard,

It requires a sort of datatype or encoding.

Assume unit = "ft&inches"
               value = <3,6>

would that make sense?

In the xsd datatypes everything is in the value already.
The XSD datatypes all resolve to single values, so don't give a clear steer from them as to how to deal with the 'multiple units' issue.

I can see what you're saying as regards a 'complex' datatype, but I can't find examples on the Web of how the value would actually be encoded as an RDF value which software agents could do anything useful with.

The best I have come up with is this document from 2002:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/datatyping/<http://infolab.stanford.edu/%7Emelnik/rdf/datatyping/>

which has some heavy hitters associated with it.  Is this the sort of approach you are proposing?

A slightly more complex example would be a geographical coordinate expressed as latitude and longitude (both expressed as degrees, minutes and seconds).

Thanks,

Richard

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Richard Light
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