Please provide some feedback about JOE:

  1. Was the tutorial for JOE helpful?
    2. Yes No didn't use it

    EDITOR MODE FEATURES

  2. Were you able to create a sample ontology ?
    3. Yes No

  3. If your answer is yes to the above question, please describe any difficulties you encountered in that process.
    (If your answer is no, please explain).

    4. QUERY MODE FEATURES

  4. Were you able to generate queries on a given ontology?
    5. Yes No

  5. If your answer is yes to the above question, please describe any difficulties you encountered in that process.
    (If your answer is no, please explain)

  6. When answering the following questions, please consider the option of
    having and not having access to the features described.
    7. Hierarchical display (MS Explorer Format) Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Hierarchical display (Tree Format) Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Progressive zooming Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Ability to view the entire ontology
    inside the current viewing area    		 Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Locating nodes (searching) Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Alphabetical listing of the nodes Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Point and click approach in generating queries Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Automatic generation of SQL queries Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Graphical display as opposed to a textual one Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful
    Automatic transformation from graphical to
    (basic) textual representation of a given ontology    		 Not Useful No Significant Impact Useful

    In general:

  7. How does JOE compares to other similar tools you may have used?
    8. poorly about the same better

  8. If your answer is poorly or better, please explain below

  9. Which of the features provided by JOE do you consider to be the most useful?

  10. Have you used the Ontology Editor of the Ontolingua Server at Stanford?
    11. Yes No

    The following two questions are for those who have used Ontolingua
    - if you haven't used Ontolingua, you may skip them.

  11. How would you compare the time to get started in JOE to that in Ontolingua
    (consider also the responsiveness of each tool) ?
    12. JOE is slower about the same JOE is faster

  12. How would you compare the user interface of JOE to that of the Ontolingua Server ?
    13. JOE's GUI is better about the same Ontolingua's GUI is better

  13. Please describe suggestions for improvements in JOE
    or any other comments that you may like to make below.

  14. If you were given a choice, what grade would you give to JOE ?
    Please feel free to consider any other similar tools (those not mentioned here)
    that you may have used in the past. If you have used such tools, please indicate what
    they are below.
    15. [Also, briefly describe your reason for choosing this grade.]
    A B C D F

    Please provide some basic information about your expertise:

  15. How often do you use services provided by the Internet ?
    16. less than 2 hours per day about 5 hours per day more than 8 hours per day

  16. Which one of the following best describes the service you use most?
    17. getting information (research) send/receive email chatting with others
    reading news just plain surfing entertainment (multimedia) others not listed here

  17. What is your level of knowledge about the following:
    18. Programming Languages:
    C/C++ below average average above average
    Java below average average above average
    Standards:
    HTML* below average average above average
    SQL** below average average above average
    *    Hyper Text Markup Language (established standard for WWW documents)
    **  Standard Query Language (established standard for database queries )

  18. What is your level of knowledge about the following disciplines:
    19. Knowledge Representation (KR) and Ontologies? below average average above average
    Entity-Relationship(ER) Models? below average average above average
    Database Systems? below average average above average
    Software Agents? below average average above average

  19. Have you ever used or heard about the following projects/applications:
    20. Ontolingua project at Stanford University not aware of heard about it used it
    Generic Knowledge Base Editor
    (a graphical browser for Ontolingua Server)    		 not aware of heard about it used it
    InfoSleuth project not aware of heard about it used it
    Rational Rose software,
    Unified Modeling Language UML,
    or Object Modeling Technique OMT     		not aware of heard about it used it
    Object Oriented Healthcare Vocabulary Repository
    OOHVR - the Query Interface Project at
    New Jersey Institute of Technology    		 not aware of heard about it used it
    The Stanford-IBM Manager of Multiple Information Sources
    (TSIMMIS) Project at Stanford University    		 not aware of heard about it used it

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions and evaluating
the software. Your contributions and feedback will be very much appreciated.

Center for Information Technology
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of South Carolina