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. 2018 Jan 18;9:6. doi: 10.1186/s13326-017-0172-7

Table 4.

MIRO items ordered by compliance (COM), including the rating (RAT) from the ontology survey”

MIRO item RAT COM CRF
SRD: Scope and coverage 4.15 100.00 MH
Content: KR language 4.11 100.00 MH
Motivation: Target audience 3.94 100.00 MH
Motivation: Need 3.85 100.00 MH
Content: Axiom patterns 3.80 100.00 MH
Basics: Ontology URL 4.72 93.33 MH
Content: Ontology relationships 4.13 93.33 MH
SRD: Development community 3.77 93.33 MH
Basics: Ontology name 4.71 90.00 MH
QA: Examples of usage 4.19 86.67 MH
Content: Incorporation of other ontologies 4.09 86.67 MH
Motivation: Competition 3.96 80.00 MH
KA: Knowledge acqu. methodology 3.93 80.00 MH
Content: Ontology metrics 3.42 80.00 SH
Content: Development environment 2.88 73.33 OM
QA: Evaluation 3.99 66.67 MM
Content: Upper ontology 3.88 66.67 MM
KA: Content selection 3.38 66.67 SM
Basics: Ontology owner 4.53 53.33 MM
Basics: Ontology repository 4.01 53.33 MM
SRD: Communication 3.80 40.00 ML
Content: Entity metadata policy 3.89 33.33 ML
Basics: Ontology license 4.50 26.67 ML
QA: Testing 3.87 26.67 ML
Content: Entity naming conventions 3.74 26.67 ML
KA: Source knowledge location 3.36 26.67 SL
Content: Identifier generation policy 3.86 6.67 MV
Change: Versioning policy 3.80 6.67 MV
Change: Sustainability plan 3.89 0.00 MV
Change: Entity deprecation strategy 3.83 0.00 MV

The compliance-rating factor (CRF) is described in “Compliance of existing papers with MIRO guidelines” section