dwc:measurementUnit

A named quantity in terms of which other quantities are measured or specified, used as a standard measurement of like kinds.

Notes

Recommended best practice is to use the International System of Units (SI). This term has an equivalent in the dwciri: namespace that allows only an IRI as a value, whereas this term allows for any string literal value.

Examples

  • m
  • g
  • l
  • °C
  • mm
  • km²
  • %
  • hh:mm:ss

References

  1. Wieczorek J., Bloom D., Guralnick R., Blum S., Döring M., Giovanni R. et al. 2012 Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLOS ONE. Vol. 7, (1) p. e29715. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
  2. NCI 2025 NCI Thesaurus. [2025-2-6] ncit.nci.nih.gov

Related Data

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Properties

Label

measurementUnit

EUPH UID

[0.0.NTNME87]

IRI

https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/vocabulary/descriptors/0.0.NTNME87

EUPH IRI

https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/vocabulary/descriptors/0.0.NTNME87

Data types

String

Unit

No unit

Deprecated

No

Published

2023-09-01

Updated

2025-04-15
Descriptor relationships

Namespace

dwc

Class

measurement unit

Dependencies

dwc:MeasurementOrFact
Statistic

Number of datasets

3

Number of columns

4

Number of data points

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