Unit Representation

[diatomsRcool]

Right now Quantity.unit is a string. Should we consider making this a dynamic enum that pulls from Unit Ontology?

[bfurner]

that's a good idea. do you have a link to that ontology?

[diatomsRcool]

https://obofoundry.org/ontology/uo.html

[bfurner]

The unit representation i've seen used regularly is UCUM. This is what LOINC and FHIR use. Also LinkML has built-in support for UCUM as can be seenhere. This may be a better option than the Unit Ontology, but I am open to either.

[diatomsRcool]

Let's use UCUM then.

[bfurner]

I created a PR that defines an enum for units of measurement using the UCUM-based Units of Measurement (UOM) ontology. If that looks good @diatomsRcool go ahead and merge the PR, or let me know and I can do so.

[diatomsRcool]

Looks like you did it, so I'm closing this issue.