Ontology Evaluation Ideas

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