Here's a suggestion. Property names for numeric information seem to
be on the table -- these should be viewed systematically not
haphazardly.
If all text properties had a "dotted" lower-case name,
life would be simpler in SMW land all around and maybe Wikidata land
too. All page names have an initial capital as a consequence of
requiring all text properties to be named with an initial "period"
followed by a lower-case letter. The SMW tool mandates the properties
from which all derive: .text, .string and .number are basic (along with
others like .page). Then, strings have language-based subproperties and
number expression subproperties, and numbers have XSD datatype
subpropertiess, which in turn have SI unit type subproperties, and so
on.
Here's a "Consolidated Listing of ISO 639, ISO 4217, SI
Measurement Symbols, and World Time Zones [1]" [1] to illustrate that it
is possible to create a unified string- & numeric-type property name
dictionary across a wide swath of the standards world. The document
lists a few overlapping symbols then re-assigned to another symbol.
Adopting a "dotted name" text-property naming convention, can segue to
easier user interfaces too for query forms at least plus impacts
exploited by an SMW query engine. What is meant by these expressions
seems pretty natural to most people:
Property: Height - the value is
a wiki pagename or objectname for a "height" numeric object
Property:
.text - (on Height) the value is text markup associated with the Height
object
Property: .string - (on Height) the value is text non-markup
data for the Height object
Property: .ft - (on Height) the value is
number of feet associated with the Height object
Property: Height.text
- the value is text markup associated with an anonymous Height object
Property: Height.string - the value is a "string" property of an
anonymous Height object
Property: Height.ft - the value is a "feet"
property of an anonymous Height object
[1]
http://www.hypergrove.com/Publications/Symbols.html
Links:
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[1]
http://www.hypergrove.com/Publications/Symbols.html