An important aspect for scientific progress in ontology research is understanding, and ultimately measuring, aspects of ontology quality.

On this page, we hope to gather together information, publications, and ideas for ontology quality. In scope for this page are suggestions for dimensions of quality, how they can be objectively measured, publications that talk about quality or show how quality matters, etc.

[edit] Dimensions of Ontology Quality

What are the ways that ontologies can be said to be good or bad? There is not a lot of discussion of this in the literature, but there is some.

[edit] Coverage

[edit] Correctness

[edit] Richness

[edit] Commitment

[edit] Organization

[edit] Modularity

[edit] Relation to reality

(cf realism)

[edit] Making meaning clear

[edit] Meta-level consistency

see OntoClean

[edit] Captures the invariant structure of the domain

[edit] Elements of Formal Ontology