- From: Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:52:00 -0200
- To: public-lod@w3.org, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Martin's message raises an interesting question, to which I don't have an easy answer... On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:07 - 04/12/10, Martin Hepp wrote: > Simple rules: > > 1. It is better to use an existing ontology than inventing your own. > 2. It is better to use the most popular existing ontology than a less popular existing ontology. Let's assume I like this rule and want to follow it. How can we measure the popularity of an ontology? Simply counting the number of triples in the LoD cloud that have a URI from it? The problem with this, in my view, is that measuring a single "term" (class, property) is not really indicative. As many people mix and match terms from different ontologies, the popularity of a single (or small subset) of terms may not be a good indicator of the popularity of the *whole* ontology (when you would really benefit from the ontology engineering effort put into it, as pointed out by others). I'd love to hear different takes on this. *If* we can come up with a good metric, this could be reported in existing directories/lists, and help users tremendously (although I can also see another can of worms opening up, but I won't go into this for now). Cheers Daniel --- Daniel Schwabe Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio Tel:+55-21-3527 1500 r. 4356 R. M. de S. Vicente, 225<br> Fax: +55-21-3527 1530 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453-900, Brasil http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~dschwabe
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