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Evaluation report of the use of Onto-Logging<br />

platform in the user site<br />

Deliverable ID: D8b<br />

Page : 31 of 110<br />

Version: 1.0<br />

Date: 27 january 2004<br />

Status: Final<br />

Confid.: Public<br />

• Assess the functionalities of what has been designed (summative).<br />

• Assess the substantive value of what has been designed (substantive value).<br />

In the first case, formative evaluation will help to readjust the plans and the priority of the<br />

Ontologging project, to better understand the users’ needs, and to refine the definition of the<br />

different Ontologging components, putting more emphasis on what is considered to be the<br />

most important.<br />

This phase will first be based on setting-up at the user place an early version of the prototype,<br />

and asking them for their feedback. This phase will also consist in evaluating how the<br />

different components interoperate with one anot her, and in identifying the functionalities that<br />

may be missing, or that would need more attention.<br />

In the second case, summative evaluation will help to access what Ontologging has produced,<br />

and what are the functionalities available.<br />

This phase will consist in the evaluation of the main Ontologging components at the users’<br />

site, and will be achieved with a functioning version of the prototype.<br />

In the last cases, the substantive value evaluation will help to understand what are the areas of<br />

knowledge management in which the system can contribute the most, and where is the real<br />

innovation (incremental or radical) in the Ontologging system.<br />

This phase will consist in the analysis of the different components of Ontologging according<br />

to a usability perspective (what is really usable for the organization). This phase will be<br />

achieved using the result of a consolidated version of the prototype<br />

3.3.4 A pre-selection of the elements to be evaluated<br />

Let’s now define, for each of the sub-goals that we want Ontologging to achieve, some<br />

elements and criteria to evaluate.<br />

3.3.4.1 Goal 1: Ontologging for helping to structure the work in the organization<br />

The structuring role of Ontologging originates from its capability to support the definition of<br />

the shared Ontologies that specify the semantic of the different concept and that are used<br />

across the whole organization to communicate.<br />

Several elements can be taken into account when evaluating the capability of Ontologging to<br />

support this structuring role.<br />

Technical view<br />

The first element is the technical and instrumental, and is related to the capability of the<br />

Ontology authoring tools that are provided, to support the definition of the different<br />

Ontologies that need to be represented. The evaluation of this element mainly consists in the<br />

evaluation of the technical components that are used to author the ontologies (these

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