The Units Ontology: a tool for integrating units of measurement in science | Zendy

Georgios V. Gkoutos | Zendy; Paul N. Schofield | Zendy; Robert Hoehndorf | Zendy

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The Units Ontology: a tool for integrating units of measurement in science

Author(s) -

Georgios V. Gkoutos,

Paul N. Schofield,

Robert Hoehndorf

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

database

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.406

H-Index - 62

ISSN - 1758-0463

DOI - 10.1093/database/bas033

Subject(s) - ontology , standardization , interoperability , computer science , ontology based data integration , upper ontology , process (computing) , information retrieval , process ontology , semantic integration , data science , open biomedical ontologies , meaning (existential) , data integration , suggested upper merged ontology , world wide web , semantic web , data mining , semantic web stack , programming language , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , psychotherapist , operating system

Units are basic scientific tools that render meaning to numerical data. Their standardization and formalization caters for the report, exchange, process, reproducibility and integration of quantitative measurements. Ontologies are means that facilitate the integration of data and knowledge allowing interoperability and semantic information processing between diverse biomedical resources and domains. Here, we present the Units Ontology (UO), an ontology currently being used in many scientific resources for the standardized description of units of measurements.publishersversionPeer reviewe

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