NorPOnt: Creation of a domain ontology for S R Ranganathan’s  normative principles in library and information science

Authors

SUDHIER K G Central University of Tamil Nadu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5212-2868
Abhijith B Central University of Tamil Nadu

Ontology, Normative Principles, S.R. Ranganathan, Competency Questions (CQs), FOCA Methodology.

R. Ranganathan formulated several rules and guidelines for classification and cataloguing, and normative principles are one among them. The present study aims to develop an ontology on normative principles (NorPOnt) so that it will improve data connection, knowledge representation, and search strategies. Protégé software was utilised to develop the ontology and the built-in Pellet Reasoner Plug-in was used to investigate for inconsistencies and found none. Competency questions (CQs) were created to measure the satisfaction level of select experts in using the ontology. The mean satisfactory level was found to be 3.24, which indicates that satisfactory and highly satisfactory were the two most common responses. The ontology’s quality was also assessed using the FOCA method. After the computation, the quality value (µ) was discovered to be 0.992, which is near 1, signifying excellent quality. The evaluation results show that NorPOnt is an ontology with few inconsistencies and could answer the CQs better with higher quality.

SUDHIER K G, Central University of Tamil Nadu

Dr. K. G. Sudhier is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur. Prior to this, he was associated with the University of Kerala with various academic and administrative assignments including as an Assistant Professor. He has several years of teaching, research, professional and administrative experience in the university level. Under his supervision 06 PhDs (pursuing 04), 10 MPhils and 50+ MLISc Projects have been awarded. He has published two books, edited another three and contributed 65 papers in peer reviewed and indexed journals, and given numerous presentations in the areas of scholarly communication, digital libraries, scientomterics and social media. His research has been funded by the Dept. of Science and Technology (DST) and ICSSR, Govt. of India. He is the Vice president of IASLIC, Kolakata and the recipient of the Best Teacher award form the Madras Library Association. He is a very active academician with various contributions in LIS domain as Author, Reviewer, Editor and Resource Person in many scholarly events and groups.