diff --git a/.vitepress/config.ts b/.vitepress/config.ts index 395b8bb..b60463a 100644 --- a/.vitepress/config.ts +++ b/.vitepress/config.ts @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ export default defineConfig({ ] }, { text: 'Software', link: '/software/' }, + { text: 'Resources', link: '/resources' }, { text: 'Blog', link: '/blog/' }, { text: 'About', link: '/about' } ], @@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ export default defineConfig({ items: [ { text: 'Get Started', link: '/get-started' }, { text: 'Schemas', link: '/schemas' }, + { text: 'Reference Materials', link: '/resources' }, ] } ], @@ -148,6 +150,18 @@ export default defineConfig({ text: 'About', items: [ { text: 'About UnitsML', link: '/about' }, + { text: 'Supporters', link: '/supporters' }, + { text: 'Privacy Policy', link: '/privacy' }, + { text: 'Terms of Service', link: '/tos' }, + ] + } + ], + '/supporters': [ + { + text: 'About', + items: [ + { text: 'About UnitsML', link: '/about' }, + { text: 'Supporters', link: '/supporters' }, { text: 'Privacy Policy', link: '/privacy' }, { text: 'Terms of Service', link: '/tos' }, ] diff --git a/about.md b/about.md index a965ea8..f141409 100644 --- a/about.md +++ b/about.md @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ UnitsML is under active development and its documentation may change frequently. History People Organizations + Supporters FAQ @@ -98,6 +99,10 @@ UnitsML has been shaped by contributors across government, academia, and industr ## Participating Organizations +
++ A collection of presentations, publications, guidelines, and archived schema + documentation from the UnitsML project's 25-year history. +
+UnitsML presentation at the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 20, Test Information Integration / Test and ATS Description Working Group.
+ +Overview slides from the inaugural OASIS Technical Committee meeting, introducing UnitsML's scope, architecture, and development plan.
+ +Early UnitsML presentation at the metadata registries forum in Santa Fe, NM — one of the first public introductions of the project.
+ +Academic preprint covering the design and motivation behind UnitsML for encoding scientific units of measure in XML.
+ +Peer-reviewed paper in the NIST Journal of Research describing how UnitsML improves data exchange by embedding unambiguous unit definitions in markup languages.
+ +Concise two-page flyer introducing UnitsML, its purpose, and how it addresses the challenge of encoding scientific units.
+ +Official guidelines document covering how to use UnitsML in practice — writing valid markup, choosing appropriate elements, and incorporating UnitsML into other formats.
+ +Formal naming and design rules governing the UnitsML XML Schema, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and compliance with standards best practices.
+ +Early draft of the UnitsML usage guidelines, providing context on the design decisions and intended usage patterns.
+ +See also the schema change log tracking modifications across versions.
+ +## Sample Documents + +Example of a concise UnitsML document rendered with an XSLT stylesheet, demonstrating how UnitsML markup looks in practice.
+ +Visual diagram of the UnitsDB data model showing how units, quantities, dimensions, and prefixes relate to each other.
+ ++ UnitsML has been shaped by a diverse coalition of organizations across government, + academia, and industry — each contributing expertise, resources, and commitment to + the goal of unambiguous unit representation in scientific data. +
+NIST originated the UnitsML project in 1998 through its Physics Laboratory and Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory. As the U.S. authority on the International System of Units (SI), NIST developed the initial UnitsML schema, built UnitsDB, and sponsored the project through the SIMA (Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications) program. NIST remains a key supporter through CalConnect TC UNITS.
+ + + + +CalConnect hosts the current standards body for UnitsML through its Technical Committee on Units of Measure (TC UNITS). Established in 2022, TC UNITS maintains the UnitsML specification, oversees UnitsDB development, and pursues international alignment with ISO, IEC, and BIPM towards a globally interoperable "Digital SI."
+ + + + +Contributed to the OASIS Technical Committee for UnitsML, bringing expertise in scientific data management and interdisciplinary data exchange from one of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories.
+ + + + +Open standards and security company providing engineering support for UnitsML infrastructure — including the UnitsDB Ruby implementations, schema tooling, and this website. Active contributor to CalConnect TC UNITS.
+ + + + +Participated in the OASIS Technical Committee for UnitsML, contributing enterprise XML and data exchange expertise to help shape the standard for industrial and commercial applications.
+ + + + +The Chemical Markup Language community contributed domain expertise in chemistry-specific unit requirements, ensuring UnitsML could represent the full range of chemical measurement units and quantities.
+ + + + +Hosted the OASIS Technical Committee for UnitsML from 2006 to 2016, providing the formal standards process that produced the UnitsML 1.0 Committee Specification Drafts (CSD01 through CSD04).
+ + + + +As the custodian of the International System of Units (SI), BIPM provides advisory guidance on the alignment of UnitsML and UnitsDB with the SI Brochure, supporting the "Digital SI" initiative for machine-readable unit definitions.
+ + +