Evaluation of indonesian traditional herbal medicine ontology quality

Abstract

Research and explorations about the benefit of Traditional Medicine (TM) Knowledge are still remained recently. Due to its benefits and widespread ancient practices, the information contained within the knowledge of traditional medicine has potential to be taken in studies that support modern healing methods. This research is focused on the evaluation of Traditional Medicine knowledge ontology which is developed for the purpose to distinctively solve encountered problems in traditional way which are still in use by native people such as healing wound, curing diseases, and so on. A quantitative approach is conducted by using reliable measurement and evaluation methods in order to acquire a valid evaluation result of the ontology. The result of this research indicates the reliability of the developed ontology in storing provided knowledge as a knowledge base according to the measurement evaluation and validation.