Measure

This Measure Data Standard focuses on data elements used to identify and describe recorded measurements or analytical results that are being exchanged between data trading partners. There are many categories or types of measurement where the units in each type are mutually comparable. For example, lengths, diameters, distances, heights, wavelengths constitute such a category. Mutually comparable quantities are called “quantities of the same kind”. Each category of measurement has an allowed set of units of measure. Two or more physical quantities cannot be compared unless they belong to the same category of measurements. Some example categories of measurements include: length, mass, time, temperature, amount of substance, velocity, force, relative density, illuminance, and entropy.

• Measure Data Standard