Citation
Poveda-Villalón, María and Vatant, B. and Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen and Gómez-Pérez, A.
(2013).
Detecting Good Practices and Pitfalls when Publishing
Vocabularies on the Web.
In: "WOP 2013 – Workshop on Ontology Patterns at the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013)", 21 October 2013, Sydney, Australia. ISBN 1613-0073.
Abstract
The uptake of Linked Data (LD) has promoted the proliferation of datasets and their associated ontologies bringing their semantic to the data being published. These ontologies should be evaluated at different stages, both during their development and their publication. As important as correctly modelling the intended part of the world to be captured in an ontology, is publishing, sharing and facilitating the (re)use of the obtained model. In this paper, 11 evaluation characteristics, with respect to publish, share and facilitate the reuse, are proposed. In particular, 6 good practices and 5 pitfalls are presented, together with their associated detection methods. In addition, a grid-based rating system is generated. Both contributions, the set of evaluation characteristics and the grid system, could be useful for ontologists in order to reuse existing LD vocabularies or to check the one being built.