A Semantic Web Technology Index

TL;DR

This paper introduces a standardized index with 10 criteria to evaluate and guide the development of Semantic Web technology, aiming to improve quality and consistency across applications.

Contribution

It proposes a concrete, quantifiable index for standardizing and assessing Semantic Web technology development, filling a gap in existing guidelines.

Findings

The index provides a clear scoring system from 0 to 10 for each criterion.

Application examples demonstrate the index's effectiveness in evaluating SW projects.

The index is validated as a useful tool for guiding SW technology development.

Abstract

Semantic Web (SW) technology has been widely applied to many domains such as medicine, health care, finance, geology. At present, researchers mainly rely on their experience and preferences to develop and evaluate the work of SW technology. Although the general architecture (e.g., Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web Layer Cake) of SW technology was proposed many years ago and has been well-known, it still lacks a concrete guideline for standardizing the development of SW technology. In this paper, we propose an SW technology index to standardize the development for ensuring that the work of SW technology is designed well and to quantitatively evaluate the quality of the work in SW technology. This index consists of 10 criteria that quantify the quality as a score of 0 ~ 10. We address each criterion in detail for a clear explanation from three aspects: 1) what is the criterion? 2) why do we consider this criterion and 3) how do the current studies meet this criterion? Finally, we present the validation of this index by providing some examples of how to apply the index to the validation cases. We conclude that the index is a useful standard to guide and evaluate the work in SW technology.