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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of all information items in MIRO (mean, median, standard deviation)

From: MIRO: guidelines for minimum information for the reporting of an ontology

MIRO item

Rank

Mean

Med

SD

Basics: Ontology URL

1

4.72

5

0.68

Basics: Ontology name

2

4.71

5

0.70

Basics: Ontology license

4

4.50

5

0.79

SRD: Scope and coverage

6

4.15

4

0.84

SRD: Development community

25

3.77

4

0.86

Basics: Ontology owner

3

4.53

5

0.87

Content: Ontology relationships

7

4.13

4

0.88

Content: Incorporation of other ontologies

9

4.09

4

0.95

Motivation: Target audience

13

3.94

4

0.96

Content: Axiom patterns

24

3.80

4

0.96

QA: Examples of use

5

4.19

5

0.99

KA: Knowledge acquisition methodology

14

3.93

4

0.99

Content: Entity metadata policy

16

3.89

4

1.02

Content: KR language

8

4.11

4

1.03

Content: Upper ontology

17

3.88

4

1.03

Change: Versioning policy

23

3.80

4

1.03

QA: Testing

18

3.87

4

1.04

KA: Content selection

28

3.38

4

1.04

Content: Entity naming convention

26

3.74

4

1.04

Basics: Ontology repository

10

4.01

4

1.04

Change: Entity deprecation strategy

21

3.83

4

1.07

Motivation: Competition

12

3.96

4

1.07

Motivation: Need

20

3.85

4

1.08

Content: Identifier generation policy

19

3.86

4

1.08

QA: Evaluation

11

3.99

4

1.08

SRD: Communication

22

3.80

4

1.09

Change: Sustainability plan

15

3.89

4

1.09

KA: Source knowledge location

29

3.36

3

1.09

Content: Ontology metrics

27

3.42

3

1.18

Content: Development environment

30

2.88

3

1.30

  1. Abbreviations: SRD Scope, requirements, development community, QA Quality assurance, KA Knowledge acquisition, med–Median, sd standard deviation
  2. Data is sorted by standard deviation (sd) in order to highlight the items that had the largest disagreement