A critical view on the OQuaRE Ontology Quality Framework
2023 (English)In: Enterprise Information Systems: 24th International Conference, ICEIS 2022, Virtual Event, April 25–27, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer, 2023, p. 273-291Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Creating and maintaining high-quality ontologies is crucial as they encapsulate the logic for rule-based artificial intelligence. One way to objectively assess ontologies is ontology metrics, and the research community has already proposed measurement frameworks for assessing ontology quality. Arguably, the most holistic framework available is OQuaRE. Not only does it suggest metrics, but it also links these metrics to quality characteristics and interprets them using a school-like grading system. However, in an effort to implement the framework for the metric calculation software NEOntometrics, serious drawbacks came to light: (1) Important parts of the framework are only available at online resources (thus not part of the scientific record and without ensured permanent availability). (2) The proposing authors have been involved in all applications of the framework and corresponding research, an outside perspective is missing. (3) At times, the meaning of metrics changed throughout the papers without notice, leading to conflicting definitions. (4) A thorough evaluation of the quality grades is missing. This research aims to fill this gap: We first scrutinize the various metric proposals with their conflicting versions and resolve these conflicts. Afterward, we present OQuaRE to its full extent to create a permanent, lasting record. At last, we use a large body of evaluated ontologies to assess whether OQuaREs quality ratings sufficiently cover the ontology models used in the wild.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2023. p. 273-291
Series
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, ISSN 1865-1348, E-ISSN 1865-1356 ; 487
Keywords [en]
NEOntometrics, Ontology Quality, OQuaRE, Quality Framework, Grading, Quality control, High quality, Holistic frameworks, Neontometric, Ontology metrics, Ontology qualities, Ontology's, Research communities, Rule based, Ontology
National Category
Information Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-63369DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39386-0_13Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85172733445ISBN: 9783031393853 (print)ISBN: 9783031393860 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-63369DiVA, id: diva2:1828231
Conference
24th International Conference, ICEIS 2022, Virtual Event, April 25–27, 2022
2024-01-162024-01-162025-10-13Bibliographically approved