Re: [ANN] DBpedia Archivo presentation at Semantics on Sept 9

Hi Sebastian, all

Indeed, there has been several initiatives to develop concrete methodologies and tools with  
>>  implementable criteria to evaluate 
The level of FAIRness. 
Note that the subject of "ontology evaluation » (i.e., quality) is different and way more older than FAIR. The  authors of the FAIR principles have clearly distinguished FAIRness and quality. 

In fact, turning the FAIR principles into concrete implementable tests or checks is perfectly doable. And actually, it is expected, a not only for semantics artefacts, but for any kind of research objects to which the FAIR principles may apply more or less directly. 
Daniel mentioned their new FOOPS. 
On our side, (folks working on ontology repositories) – because it has been demonstrated that the repositories/catalogues to share semantic resources are in fact very important for their FAIRness (e.g. [3]) – we are working on prototyping a FAIRness assessment component inside ontology repositories (in our case AgroPortal). 
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/lirmm-03208544/ 
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/lirmm-03232615 (French only sorry, the English version is on its way, but there is a screenshot of our proto)

The first paper presents a metrics (assessment grid) that can be used to implement methods for FAIRness assessment. Plus, it also lists the possible concrete metadata fields on which someone can base « implementable tests ». The second presents one method/tool that we develop within AgroPortal (well, in fact, the tool will be generic and will work on any OntoPortal installation that offers the required metadata properties). 

The overall goal of FAIRness assessment is not just to obtain a score of course but for sure find ways for ontology developers to enhance the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of the semantic artefacts. Thus play a role to 
>> yield better and reliable ontologies


Glad to see DBPedia is also interested in the subject with Archivo. The ontology quality evaluation done in Archivo shall certainly be very useful, but I don’t see it opposed to or more « hard » than the concrete FAIRness evaluation systems being built now.
However, I would not claim Archivo being the first initiative to have a 
>> a holistic view over all available ontologies
   As Swoogle, Watson and Sindice did it in the past. 
 
Bye
Clement
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Dr. Clement JONQUET  –  PhD in Informatics
Associate Research Scientist – INRAE (MISTEA)
Associate Professor – University of Montpellier (LIRMM)
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> Le 2 sept. 2021 à 19:44, Daniel Garijo <dgarijo@fi.upm.es> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> while FAIR may have been initially discussed for sharing data, part of the community (including myself and colleagues) has been discussing for the last years how to adapt FAIR for semantic artefacts in a more concrete manner [1] [2] [3]. This has been used to develop validators such as our recent ISWC demo paper [4] (demo accessible at https://w3id.org/foops/ <https://w3id.org/foops/>). 
> 
> I hope these pointers can inform any discussion towards a new evaluation framework for reliable ontology adoption in industry.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> Coming to terms with FAIR ontologies: A position paper. <http://dgarijo.com/papers/EKAW2020_Coming_to_Terms_with_FAIR_Ontologies.pdf> María Poveda-Villalón, Paola Espinoza-Arias, Daniel Garijo and Oscar Corcho. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020)
> Best Practices for Implementing FAIR Vocabularies and Ontologies on the Web. <http://dgarijo.com/papers/best_practices2020.pdf>Daniel Garijo and María Poveda-Villalón. In Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning. IOS Press, Netherlands, 2020
> D2.5 FAIR Semantics Recommendations Second Iteration (Version 1.0). <https://zenodo.org/record/4314321> Wim Hugo, Yann Le Franc, Gerard Coen, Jessica Parland-von Essen and Luiz Bonino, Luiz. (2020). Zenodo.
> FOOPS!: An Ontology Pitfall Scanner for the FAIR principles <https://foops.linkeddata.es/assets/iswc_2021_demo.pdf>. Daniel Garijo, Oscar Corcho and María Poveda. To appear in the 2021 ISWC demo track.
> 
> El mié, 1 sept 2021 a las 13:47, DBpedia (<pr-aksw@informatik.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:pr-aksw@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>>) escribió:
> Dear all, 
> Exactly 1 year ago, we presented DBpedia Archivo https://archivo.dbpedia.org <https://archivo.dbpedia.org/> (paper <https://svn.aksw.org/papers/2020/semantics_archivo/public.pdf>, video <https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/dbpedia-archivo-web-scale-interface-ontology-archiving-under-consumer-oriented-aspects>) at SEMANTiCS 2020. Our initial vision was to create a fully automated, persistent Ontology Archive that serves as a backbone for the Semantic Web and brings a convenient and stable interface to ontology users. We are listing some points that we would judge as great successes and highlights of running Archivo for over a year. Read the full list on our blog <https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-archivo-1-year-retrospective/>.
> 
> September 9th, 2021 at 1pm CEST: In particular, we would like to invite you to the DBpedia Ontology session <https://www.dbpedia.org/events/dbpedia-day-semantics-2021/> at the DBpedia Day at SEMANTiCS 2021 <https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/> to discuss the future roadmap for Archivo as a Unified Semantic Ontology Space (USOS) and what the role of the DBpedia Ontology will be in the Semantic Web.   
> The session will host impulse talks with ample room for discussion. For the first time in the history of the Semantic Web, Archivo offers the possibility to create a Unified Semantic Ontology Space (USOS), a holistic view over all available ontologies. Instead of soft and fuzzy principles such as FAIR, we will discuss hard, implementable criteria to evaluate ontologies in preparation of a well-defined, measurable standard, which will ultimately yield better and reliable ontologies for industrial applications. Another topic is the central collaboration on links and mappings between ontologies to create a more dense and well-connected web of ontologies. Join the discussion and register here https://www.dbpedia.org/events/dbpedia-day-semantics-2021/ <https://www.dbpedia.org/events/dbpedia-day-semantics-2021/>.  
> 
> Stay tuned and stay safe! 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> The DBpedia Association
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