Hi Gregor - the root of the misconception I likely have about significant digits and the like, is that such is one example of a rendering parameter not a semantic property. But maybe I've missed the part of the discussion that cleanly separates these things into buckets, and perhaps I have my head way too (deep in the sand) to understand the discussion altogether, but that's my two cents fwiw.

With regard to other relevant worthy efforts, I suggest http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/.

On 19.12.2012 09:47, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:

Martynas,

I think you misinterpret the thread. There is no discussion not to
build on the datatypes defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/

What we are doing is discussing compositions of elements, all typed to
xml datatypes, that shall be able to express scientific and
engineering requirements as to statistics, signficant digits (except
perhaps for duration, none of the data types in
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ supports that), as well as means to
express uncertainty and confidence intervals.

Many existing xml schemata define such compositions, all squarely
built on http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ - wikidata is certainly not
unique in this effort. If you can point the team to further well
reviewed solutions, this would be very useful.

Gregor

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