<div dir="ltr">Hi all -<div>I thought you may be interested - I have started working on the units in LTER UnitDB. This work is prep for building a more complete, cleaner list for EML, and to outline a path forward for EDI.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, in the production database (<a href="http://unit.lternet.edu">http://unit.lternet.edu</a>), this has been limited to marking some units as 'deprecated', using the rules outlined by the units-WG in 2011. Deprecated units are still available for export (e.g., as a <customUnit> for your EML), but their display can be switched off to avoid duplication or confusion.</div><div><br></div><div>My question: </div><div>Is anyone sync-ing a local system to <a href="http://unit.lternet.edu">unit.lternet.edu</a>? and if you are, do you depend on the "unitType" (called "quantity" in the DB), as it is currently recorded in the database?</div><div><br></div><div>I ask because my next step is to normalize these unitTypes somewhat. So far, I have done this only in a sandbox database (not production). But I need to know the effect, if I move the changes to unitTypes (quantities) into production. If you simply pull from the DB, or browse it for inspiration, I suspect that updates to quantities will not affect you. Changes might affect you if your system performs calculations or conversions based on quantity expressions, or if you use the unitType for grouping locally.</div><div><br></div><div>To see progress, there are two git repositories of interest:</div><div>1. EML git repository, for community comments (this issue-thread and related issues):</div><div><a href="https://github.com/NCEAS/eml/issues/289">https://github.com/NCEAS/eml/issues/289</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>2. EDI's unit-registry repo, for my notes on the unitDB itself and occasional db-dumps:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/EDIorg/unit-registry">https://github.com/EDIorg/unit-registry</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks -</div><div>Margaret</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail-m_-2401664150034578276m_-3138405016167393458gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"><span style="font-size:small"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"><span style="font-size:small">Margaret O'Brien</span><br><span style="font-size:small">ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322</span><br><span style="font-size:small">Information Management</span><br><span style="font-size:small">Marine Science Institute, UCSB</span><br><span style="font-size:small">Santa Barbara, CA 93106</span><br><span style="font-size:small"><a href="tel:(805)%20893-2071" value="+18058932071" target="_blank">805-893-2071</a> (voice)</span><br><a href="http://environmentaldatainitiative.org" target="_blank">http://environmentaldatainitia<wbr>tive.org</a><br><a href="http://sbc.marinebon.org" target="_blank">http://sbc.marinebon.org</a></font><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://sbc.lternet.edu" target="_blank">http://sbc.lternet.edu</a></font></div><div><br><div><pre cols="72"><pre cols="72"><br></pre></pre></div></div></div></div></div>
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