The Role of Community and Social Metrics in Ontology Evaluation: An Interview Study of Ontology Reuse

Marzieh Talebpour, Martin Sykora, Tom Jackson

2017

Abstract

Finding a “good” or the “right” ontology for reuse is an ongoing challenge in the field of ontology engineering, where the main aim is to share and reuse existing semantics. This paper reports on a qualitative study with interviews of ontologists and knowledge engineers in different domains, ranging from biomedical field to manufacturing industry, and investigates the challenges they face while searching, evaluating, and selecting an ontology for reuse. Analysis of the interviews reveals diverse sets of quality metrics that are used when evaluating the quality of an ontology. While some of the metrics have already been mentioned in the literature, the findings from our study identify new sets of quality metrics such as community and social related metrics. We believe that this work represents a noteworthy contribution to the field of ontology engineering, with the hope that the research community can further draw on these initial findings in developing relevant quality metrics and ontology search and selection.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Talebpour M., Sykora M. and Jackson T. (2017). The Role of Community and Social Metrics in Ontology Evaluation: An Interview Study of Ontology Reuse.In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD, ISBN 978-989-758-272-1, pages 119-127. DOI: 10.5220/0006589201190127

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod17,
author={Marzieh Talebpour and Martin Sykora and Tom Jackson},
title={The Role of Community and Social Metrics in Ontology Evaluation: An Interview Study of Ontology Reuse},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD,},
year={2017},
pages={119-127},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006589201190127},
isbn={978-989-758-272-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KEOD,
TI - The Role of Community and Social Metrics in Ontology Evaluation: An Interview Study of Ontology Reuse
SN - 978-989-758-272-1
AU - Talebpour M.
AU - Sykora M.
AU - Jackson T.
PY - 2017
SP - 119
EP - 127
DO - 10.5220/0006589201190127