Re: Any reason for ontology reuse?

Hi Daniel,
Yes, counting triples is likely a bad metric, because it may be biased  
by a lot of data landfill from a single source. Also, counting  
resources is not much better, for the same reasons. The number of  
publishers should be definitely part of such a formula, because that  
indicates someone was willing to spend time adopting the ontology. I  
assume that the final metric will be a complex formula, and  
determining the parameters for calibrating the factors would likely  
make for a good PhD topic ;-)

Martin

On 04.12.2010, at 19:52, Daniel Schwabe wrote:

> 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
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