  Semantic Web (SW) technology has been widely applied to many domains such as
medicine, health care, finance, geology. At present, researchers mainly rely on
their experience and preferences to develop and evaluate the work of SW
technology. Although the general architecture (e.g., Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic
Web Layer Cake) of SW technology was proposed many years ago and has been
well-known, it still lacks a concrete guideline for standardizing the
development of SW technology. In this paper, we propose an SW technology index
to standardize the development for ensuring that the work of SW technology is
designed well and to quantitatively evaluate the quality of the work in SW
technology. This index consists of 10 criteria that quantify the quality as a
score of 0 ~ 10. We address each criterion in detail for a clear explanation
from three aspects: 1) what is the criterion? 2) why do we consider this
criterion and 3) how do the current studies meet this criterion? Finally, we
present the validation of this index by providing some examples of how to apply
the index to the validation cases. We conclude that the index is a useful
standard to guide and evaluate the work in SW technology.
