Best practices for ontology design

Start small and iterate

Start small with clearly-named, easily-separable classes and then iterate fast on ontology and guidelines. Regularly update the guidelines during the lifetime of a project.

Required jobs

Set the jobs as required so your labeler doesn’t miss them.

Field formatting

Use pre-defined field formatting for transcriptions to prevent your labelers from generating labels that don’t match the guidelines.

Issue categories

Create pre-defined issue categories to enable your labelers to quickly flag low-quality assets.

Shortcuts

Customize your shortcuts to speed up the labeling workflow.

Tagging Colors

Customize tagging colors to make your labels more visible.

Context help

Add project metadata to provide your labelers with more specific and targeted guidelines.

For more information on ontology design, refer to Customizing project interface.