Standardising units and formats (and ref frames?) in transmission

[Anita M. S. Richards]

On Fri, 22 May 2009 olsen at nist.gov wrote:
> Greetings IOVA Members,
>
> Earlier this week Denis Humbert told me about your work with VOunits. 
> Can you send me a copy of your draft, and if so, can it be distributed?
>
....
Dear Karen,

You can find the present draft of the Units Note at
http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/UnitsDesc
- see 
2009 May 22 draft IVOA Note

However, this is a very preliminary draft, it is not appropriate to 
reference it as if it were any kind of definative position, that will come 
later!

Thanks for your information about UnitsML, we will look at it with great 
interest.

Anita

>
> UnitsML work is progressing well and we've initiated an OASIS Technical 
> Committee 
> (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=unitsml) to 
> address any needed changes in the schema and publish a final 
> recommendation.
>
> Developers of Markup Languages such as Analytical Information Markup Language (AnIML) and  Atomic and Molecular Data Markup Language (AMDML) plan to use UnitsML.
>
> I invite you to take a look at the attached UnitsML flyer.  Also, the 
> main web site is http://unitsml.nist.gov and the schema can be viewed at 
> http://unitsml.nist.gov/Schema/unitsmlSchema-0.9.17.xsd
>
> Best regards,
>
> Karen Olsen
> http://physics.nist.gov
> Physics Laboratory
> National Institute of Standards and Technology
> 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8400
> Gaithersburg, MD  20899-8400
>
>



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