vim: Ontology for Units of Measurement

The advent of the digital era has put forward an urgent demand for the digitization of unit of measurement, and the construction of unit ontology is an important method to realize the digitization of unit of measurement. However, the existing unit ontology is at the preliminary research stage, especially the bilingual unit of measurement suitable for the construction of Digital China. Based on the Web Ontology Language (OWL), a bilingual unit of measurement ontology, vim, is designed and constructed using the Seven Steps to Ontology Development approach. vim provides a standardized vim provides a standardized, interoperable and unified architecture to realize the bilingual digital representation of units in the International vocabulary of metrology - basic and general concepts (VIM) and JJF 1001-2011 General Terms in Metrology and Their Definitions.