unit

This page documents the unit canonical concept dataset. The complete XML file is also available for review.

Basic Info

Name	Unit concepts
Description	Concepts for to representing units.
Namespace	http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/unit
URL	http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/docs/canonical/unit.html

Provider

Name	Google Inc.
Description	Google Inc.
URL	http://www.google.com

Imported Namespaces

ID	URI
entity	http://www.google.com/publicdata/dataset/google/entity

Topics

No topics defined.

Concepts

Concept: unit

unit [XML]

Name

Unit

Extends

entity:entity

Description

Specifies the unit associated with a metric concept. Example:

  <concept id="area_unit" extends="unit:unit">
    <info>
      <name>
        <value>Area in square kilometers</value>
      </name>
    </info>
    <table ref="area_unit_table"/>
  </concept>

The table contains a single row that contains the property values:

  symbol,symbol_position,unit_text
  km²,END,square kilometers

One can then use this unit in defining a metric concept:

  <concept id="country_area" extends="quantity:magnitude">
    <info>
      <name>
        <value>Country area in square kilometers</value>
      </name>
    </info>
    <attribute id="unit" concept="area_unit"/>
    <table ref="country_area_table"/>
  </concept>

Attributes

No local attributes.

Properties
symbol
symbol_position
unit_text

ID	symbol [XML]
Name	The symbol associated with a unit.
Type	string

ID (implied)	symbol_position [XML]
Concept	symbol_position

ID	unit_text [XML]
Name	Unit text
Type	string
Description	Descriptive text that can be displayed next to a value.

Concept: symbol_position

ID	symbol_position [XML]
Name	Unit symbol position
Type	string
Data	unit_symbol_position_table
Description	Unit symbol position
Attributes	No local attributes.
Properties	No local properties.

Concept: currency

ID	currency [XML]
Name	Currency unit
Extends	unit
Data	currency_table
Description	Specifies the currency associated with a metric concept. Each currency is identified by its 3-letter currency code (ISO 4217).
Attributes	No local attributes.
Properties	No local properties.

Slices

No slices defined.

Tables

Table: unit_symbol_position_table

unit_symbol_position_table [XML]

Data

unit_symbol_positions.csv [CSV]

Columns

Name	Type
symbol_position	string

Table: currency_table

currency_table [XML]

Data

currencies.csv [CSV]

Columns

Name	Type
currency	string
unit_text	string
symbol	string
symbol_position	string