OEO Ontology

Overview / Open Energy Ontology / Class - empirical data set
Label: empirical data set

Definition:
An empirical data set is a dataset that is obtained from observations in the real world.

Sub classes:
Definition:
An energy balance data set is an empirical data set that describes a specified set of energy transformations and a specified set of energy carriers in a spatial region for a specific time step (usually a year).

Back to the super classes:
Definition:
A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.

Editor note:
2009/10/23 Alan Ruttenberg. The intention is that this term represent collections of like data. So this isn't for, e.g. the whole contents of a cel file, which includes parameters, metadata etc. This is more like java arrays of a certain rather specific type

Editor note:
2014-05-05: Data sets are aggregates and thus must include two or more data items. We have chosen not to add logical axioms to make this restriction.