Harmonizing the OQuaRE Quality Framework

Achim Reiz, Kurt Sandkuhl

2022

Abstract

Measuring ontology quality using metrics is far from a trivial task – one has to pick the right metrics for the right task and then interpret these values in a meaningful way. Without help, these interpretations are often highly subjective, even for trained knowledge engineers. Quality frameworks can assist and objectify the evaluation. One of the more prominent frameworks in ontology evaluation is OQuaRE, which builds upon the SQuaRE standard for software evaluation. Not only provides it tangible metrics for assessing an ontology, but it also suggests an interpretation for these values in the form of a quality rating and links these metrics to a broader quality framework. However, during an implementation effort, the authors identified some drawbacks. In the last years, various metrics have been proposed that sometimes seem to conflict with each other or are inconclusive in their descriptions. The resources on the quality framework are distributed over web pages and papers. The following paper aims first to present the drawbacks the framework currently has. At the next step, we resolve the current heterogeneities and collect the information of the various sources. We aim to provide a one-stop information resource on OQuaRE to enable our further research and applications efforts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Reiz A. and Sandkuhl K. (2022). Harmonizing the OQuaRE Quality Framework. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-569-2, pages 148-158. DOI: 10.5220/0011077200003179

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis22,
author={Achim Reiz and Kurt Sandkuhl},
title={Harmonizing the OQuaRE Quality Framework},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2022},
pages={148-158},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011077200003179},
isbn={978-989-758-569-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Harmonizing the OQuaRE Quality Framework
SN - 978-989-758-569-2
AU - Reiz A.
AU - Sandkuhl K.
PY - 2022
SP - 148
EP - 158
DO - 10.5220/0011077200003179