Evaluation results


There are three levels of importance in pitfalls according to their impact on the ontology:
  • Critical It is crucial to correct the pitfall. Otherwise, it could affect the ontology consistency, reasoning, applicability, etc.
  • Important Though not critical for ontology function, it is important to correct this type of pitfall.
  • Minor It is not really a problem, but by correcting it we will make the ontology nicer.

Pitfalls detected:


Ontology elements (classes, object properties and datatype properties) are created isolated, with no relation to the rest of the ontology.

• This pitfall appears in the following elements:
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/Deployment
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/Yield
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/Intake

This pitfall consists in creating an ontology element and failing to provide human readable annotations attached to it. Consequently, ontology elements lack annotation properties that label them (e.g. rdfs:label, lemon:LexicalEntry, skos:prefLabel or skos:altLabel) or that define them (e.g. rdfs:comment or dc:description). This pitfall is related to the guidelines provided in [5].

• The following elements have neither rdfs:label or rdfs:comment (nor skos:definition) defined:
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#SpatialThing
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/based_near

• The following elements have neither rdfs:comment or skos:definition defined:
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/Deployment
https://saref.etsi.org/core/Device
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
https://schema.org/Organization
https://saref.etsi.org/core/Actuator
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TAXRANK_0000000
https://saref.etsi.org/core/Sensor
https://saref.etsi.org/core/relatesToProperty
https://saref.etsi.org/core/makesMeasurement
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/hasDeployment
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isMeasuredByDevice
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/hasSubSystem
https://saref.etsi.org/core/measuresProperty
https://saref.etsi.org/core/relatesToMeasurement
https://saref.etsi.org/core/controlsProperty
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isMeasuredIn
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TAXRANK_1000000
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/member
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasState
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isControlledByDevice
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasTimestamp
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasValue

Object and/or datatype properties without domain or range (or none of them) are included in the ontology.

• This pitfall appears in the following elements:
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isControlledByDevice
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasState
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#long
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/member
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TAXRANK_1000000
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isMeasuredIn
https://saref.etsi.org/core/measurementMadeBy
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isMeasurementOf
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/isMemberOf
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasMeasurement
https://saref.etsi.org/core/controlsProperty
https://saref.etsi.org/core/accomplishes
https://saref.etsi.org/core/relatesToMeasurement
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/inDeployment
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isCommandOf
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/isLocatedIn
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasReceived
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/isContainedIn
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#location
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasFunction
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasID
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasMember
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasCommand
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasProperty
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/managesFarm
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/deployedSystem
http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/hosts
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/generates
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/isDeployedAtSpace
https://saref.etsi.org/core/measuresProperty
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/hasSubSystem
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isPropertyOf
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasDeploymentPeriod
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/isLocationOf
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/contains
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isMeasuredByDevice
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/hasDeployment
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/receives
https://saref.etsi.org/core/actsUpon
https://saref.etsi.org/core/makesMeasurement
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isAccomplishedBy
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/based_near
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/deployedOnPlatform
https://saref.etsi.org/core/relatesToProperty
http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/isHostedBy
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasName
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasValue
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasHarvestDate
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasDeathDate
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasTimestamp
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#alt
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasManufacturer
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasPlantDate
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasModel
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasBirthDate
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#lat
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasDescription

Tip: Solving this pitfall may lead to new results for other pitfalls and suggestions. We encourage you to solve all cases when needed and see what else you can get from OOPS!

This pitfall appears when any relationship (except for those that are defined as symmetric properties using owl:SymmetricProperty) does not have an inverse relationship (owl:inverseOf) defined within the ontology.

• OOPS! has the following suggestions for the relationships without inverse:
http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#sfContains could be inverse of http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#sfWithin

• Sorry, OOPS! has no suggestions for the following relationships without inverse:
https://saref.etsi.org/core/relatesToProperty
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/based_near
https://saref.etsi.org/core/actsUpon
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isMeasuredByDevice
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasDeploymentPeriod
http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/hasSubSystem
https://saref.etsi.org/core/measuresProperty
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/isDeployedAtSpace
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/generates
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/managesFarm
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/hasID
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasFunction
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#location
https://saref.etsi.org/core/relatesToMeasurement
https://saref.etsi.org/core/controlsProperty
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isMeasuredIn
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TAXRANK_1000000
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/member
http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#hasGeometry
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#long
https://saref.etsi.org/core/hasState
https://saref.etsi.org/core/isControlledByDevice

The ontology elements are not named following the same convention (for example CamelCase or use of delimiters as "-" or "_") . Some notions about naming conventions are provided in [2].

*This pitfall applies to the ontology in general instead of specific elements.

An ontology element (a class, an object property or a datatype property) is used in its own definition. Some examples of this would be: (a) the definition of a class as the enumeration of several classes including itself; (b) the appearance of a class within its owl:equivalentClass or rdfs:subClassOf axioms; (c) the appearance of an object property in its rdfs:domain or range rdfs:range definitions; or (d) the appearance of a datatype property in its rdfs:domain definition.

• This pitfall appears in the following elements:
http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#SpatialObject
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent

This pitfall consists in missing the definition of equivalent classes (owl:equivalentClass) in case of duplicated concepts. When an ontology reuses terms from other ontologies, classes that have the same meaning should be defined as equivalent in order to benefit the interoperability between both ontologies.

• The following classes might be equivalent:
https://schema.org/Organization, http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/System

Two or more classes have the same content for natural language annotations for naming, for example the rdfs:label annotation. This pitfall might involve lack of accuracy when defining terms.

• The following classes contains the same label, maybe they should be replaced by one class with several labels or might be equivalent classes:
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/Platform, http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Platform
https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/Deployment, http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/Deployment

Suggestions or warnings:


The domain and range axioms are equal for each of the following object properties. Could they be symmetric or transitive?
| http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#sfContains
| http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#sfWithin


According to the highest importance level of pitfall found in your ontology the conformace bagde suggested is "Important pitfalls" (see below). You can use the following HTML code to insert the badge within your ontology documentation:




References


Lexicalizing Ontologies: The issues behind the labels. In Multimodal communication in the 21st century: Professional and academic challenges. 33rd Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), XXXIII AESLA.

Ontology development 101: A guide to creating your first ontology.

Evaluation of Taxonomic Knowledge in Ontologies and Knowledge Bases. Proceedings of the Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop. Alberta, Canada.

Style guidelines for naming and labeling ontologies in the multilingual web.

Ontology Evaluation. PhD thesis.

Ontology evaluation. In Handbook on ontologies, pages 251-273. Springer.

Owl pizzas: Practical experience of teaching owl-dl: Common errors & common patterns. In Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web, pages 63-81. Springer.

Weaving the pedantic web. In Proceedings of the WWW2010 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, LDOW 2010, Raleigh, USA, April 27, 2010.

D7. 1.3-study on persistent URIs, with identification of best practices and recommendations on the topic for the Mss and the EC. PwC EU Services.

“Linked Data - Design issues”. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space. Morgan & Claypool, 1st edition.

Is your linked data vocabulary 5-star?. http://bvatant.blogspot.fr/2012/02/is-your-linked-data-vocabulary-5-star_9588.html


Enter your ontology to scan:

Example: http://oops.linkeddata.es/example/swc_2009-05-09.rdf

Uncheck this checkbox if you don't want us to keep a copy of your ontology.





How to cite OOPS!


Poveda-Villalón, María, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, and Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa. "OOPS!(Ontology Pitfall Scanner!): An on-line tool for ontology evaluation." International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) 10.2 (2014): 7-34.

BibTex:


@article{poveda2014oops,
title={{OOPS! (OntOlogy Pitfall Scanner!): An On-line Tool for Ontology Evaluation}},
author={Poveda-Villal{\'o}n, Mar{\'i}a and G{\'o}mez-P{\'e}rez, Asunci{\'o}n and Su{\'a}rez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen},
journal={International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)},
volume={10},
number={2},
pages={7--34},
year={2014},
publisher={IGI Global}
}



OEG logo
ESTIINF logo


Escuela Técnica
Superior de
Ingenieros Informáticos

UPM logo


Universidad
Politécnica
de Madrid