Ontology Usability Scale: Context-aware Metrics for the Effectiveness, Efficiency and Satisfaction of Ontology Uses

Both ontology builders and users need a way to evaluate ontologies in terms of usability, but existing ontology evaluation approaches do not fit this purpose. We propose the Ontology Usability Scale (OUS), a ten-item Likert scale derived from statements prepared according to a semiotic framework and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaogang Ma, Linyun Fu, Patrick West, Peter Fox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018-05-01
Series:Data Science Journal
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Online Access:https://datascience.codata.org/articles/799