[tdwg-content] Fwd: [dwc] quantity (#12)

15 Dec 2014


      Der all,
I am forwarding this comment from Simon Cox, which was submitted to the
Darwin Core development site on Github.
Cheers,
John
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From: Simon Cox notifications@github.com
Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: [dwc] quantity (#12)
To: tdwg/dwc dwc@noreply.github.com
Cc: John Wieczorek tuco@berkeley.edu
'quantity' usually implies an amount, encoded as a scaled number.
In most other domains it does not include a value from an enumerated set.
The latter may be called 'quality'.
Both quantity and quality are subclasses of 'property'.
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