TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of the OQuaRE framework for ontology quality
AU - Duque-Ramos, Astrid
AU - Tomas Fernandez-Breis, Jesualdo
AU - Iniesta, Miguela
AU - Dumontier, Michel
AU - Egana Aranguren, Mikel
AU - Schulz, Stefan
AU - Aussenac-Gilles, Nathalie
AU - Stevens, Robert
PY - 2013/6/1
Y1 - 2013/6/1
N2 - The increasing importance of ontologies has resulted in the development of a large number of ontologies in both coordinated and non-coordinated efforts. The number and complexity of such ontologies make hard to ontology and tool developers to select which ontologies to use and reuse. So far, there are no mechanism for making such decisions in an informed manner. Consequently, methods for evaluating ontology quality are required. Oquare is a method for ontology quality evaluation which adapts the square standard for software product quality to ontologies. Oquare has been applied to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different ontologies but, so far, this framework has not been evaluated itself. Therefore, in this paper we present the evaluation of oquare, performed by an international panel of experts in ontology engineering. The results include the positive and negative aspects of the current version of oquare, the completeness and utility of the quality metrics included in oquare and the comparison between the results of the manual evaluations done by the experts and the ones obtained by a software implementation of oquare.
AB - The increasing importance of ontologies has resulted in the development of a large number of ontologies in both coordinated and non-coordinated efforts. The number and complexity of such ontologies make hard to ontology and tool developers to select which ontologies to use and reuse. So far, there are no mechanism for making such decisions in an informed manner. Consequently, methods for evaluating ontology quality are required. Oquare is a method for ontology quality evaluation which adapts the square standard for software product quality to ontologies. Oquare has been applied to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different ontologies but, so far, this framework has not been evaluated itself. Therefore, in this paper we present the evaluation of oquare, performed by an international panel of experts in ontology engineering. The results include the positive and negative aspects of the current version of oquare, the completeness and utility of the quality metrics included in oquare and the comparison between the results of the manual evaluations done by the experts and the ones obtained by a software implementation of oquare.
KW - Ontology quality
KW - Ontology evaluation
KW - Ontology engineering
KW - Software quality standard
U2 - 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.11.004
DO - 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.11.004
M3 - Article
SN - 0957-4174
VL - 40
SP - 2696
EP - 2703
JO - Expert Systems with Applications
JF - Expert Systems with Applications
IS - 7
ER -