Ontology Evaluation Ideas
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This page lists possible tests for analyzing ontologies in BioPortal.
Numbers, numbers
- number of classes
- number of properties
- maximum depth
- average number of children
- ...
- number of different owl constructs used from the list at index of language elements
Checks for rules of thumb in ontology design (help for authors)
- list classes with a single subclass
- list classes with more than X subclasses
- list classes with no documentation
- list of obsolete classes
- diff of stats between ontology versions (or the current and last version) to highlight areas of progress
Help in exploring ontologies
- Concepts that everyone refers to
Metrics that determine agreement with OBO Foundry design principles
- Univocality score
- Degree of Alignment and Non-alignment
- Terms with/without definitions