Department of Computer Science, University of Aberystwyth, Old College, King Street, SY23 2AX.
Database (Oxford). 2012 Oct 10;2012:bas033. doi: 10.1093/database/bas033. Print 2012.
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.
单位是赋予数值数据意义的基本科学工具。它们的标准化和形式化满足了定量测量的报告、交换、处理、可重复性和集成。本体论是促进数据和知识集成的手段，允许不同的生物医学资源和领域之间进行互操作和语义信息处理。在这里，我们提出了单位本体论（UO），这是一个目前在许多科学资源中用于标准化描述测量单位的本体论。
