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Evaluation of the OQuaRE framework for ontology quality
No full textThe 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 ver-
sion of OQuaRE, the completeness and utility of the quality metrics included in OQuaRE and the compar-
ison between the results of the manual evaluations done by the experts and the ones obtained by a
software implementation of OQuaRE.This work has been possible thanks to the funding of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through Grant TIN2010-21388-C02-02 and co-funded by the FEDER Programme. Mikel Egaña Aranguren is funded by the Marie Curie Cofund programme (FP7)