IAO Agenda and Meeting notes of April 13th 2010

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• Convened by: Alan
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• Where: Skype
• Attendees: Alan, Bjoern, ...

Agenda

The issues identified in http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=79

There have been a number of issues that have arisen in working with measurement data. First, there is the structural similarity between some specifications, such as a dose, or a specification of length in instructions on how long to cut a piece of wood, and measurement data, in that both have values and units.

In addition Tom Russ and Gully Burns have raised the issue of measurement scales a la Stevens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement) which has the potential to interfere with an orderly single inheritance hierarchy.

We can also discuss the example alluded to Melanie's issue report - the handedness assay that we worked through.

Finally see a discussion on obi-dev regarding pH and empirical units.

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