[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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