Dear Fabian, (01)
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Michael Gruninger wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > in preparation for Thursday's Pre-launch of Ontology Summit 2013,
> here
> > are some proposals for potential tracks.
> > One objective of the session will be to decide on the tracks and
> > specific topics that will be addressed within the tracks.
> > Please note that this list of potential tracks is meant to start the
> > discussion -- if you have other ideas for tracks, please join us on
> > Thursday's call!
> >
> >
> > 1. Dimensions of Ontology Evaluation
> > - addresses notions of verification, validation, quality, ranking,
> ...
> >
> > 2. Evaluation and the Ontology Application Framework
> > - looks at the problem of ontology evaluation from the perspective of
> > the applications that use the ontologies. This Framework was one of
> > the outcomes of Ontology Summit 2011
> > (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-
> bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_Applicatio
> > nFramework_Synthesis)
> >
> > 3. Best Practices in Ontological Analysis
> > - focuses on the ontology evaluation based on the ontology itself,
> > such as logical criteria (consistency, completeness, modularity) and
> > ontological analysis techniques (e.g. OntoClean).
> >
> > 4. Requirements for Ontologies
> > - how do we specify the requirements against which we evaluate
> ontologies?
> >
> > 5. Environments for Developing and Evaluating Ontologies
> > - what are best practices for evaluation that we can adapt from
> > software engineering, particularly with distributed open-source
> > software development?
> >
> >
> > ----
> >
> >
> > Michael Gruninger and Matthew West
> > co-chairs of Ontology Summit 2013
> >
> Michael, Matthew,
> This proposal looks very good to me. I am not sure whether you have
> this in mind, but would be helpful to use the "Dimensions"-track to
> establish a framework that allows us to categorize different ontology
> evaluation methodologies. Three of the dimensions that we might want to
> consider are
> - the motivations for ontology evaluation: the situation of somebody
> who is intending to reuse an ontology and needs to choose between a
> different candidates is very different from the situation of somebody
> who wants to measure progress and quality during the ontology
> development process. They will likely need different evaluation
> techniques.
> - the desirable properties of ontologies that can be evaluated: e.g.,
> consistency, coherence, adaptability, completeness, ...
> - the aspects or levels of the ontology that can be evaluated: lexical,
> syntactical, semantic, and the context of the ontology (e.g.,
> relationship to other ontologies, use a community)
>
> Best
> Fabian (02)
MW: I think methods for evaluation might more properly be situated in Track
2, but this is the kind of thing we can discuss on Thursday. (03)
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