Ontology

AGRO

Agronomy Ontology

AgrO is an ontlogy for representing agronomic practices, techniques, variables and related entities

agricultureagronomycropping systemsdataplantfarming systems researchoboontologyplant breeding
C67

FAIR 44/48

Version 2022-11-02

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)agro2022-11-024,16229355225 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Serviceagro2022-11-024,16129455214 Dec 2023
OBO Dashboardagro2022-11-021,035——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/agro-edit.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/agro/releases/2022-11-02/agro.owl

Languages de en es fr

Imports from (21)
APOLLO_SV BFO CARO CHEBI ENVO FOODON GAZ GO IAO NCBITaxon OBI OGMS PATO PCO PECO PO RO TO UBERON UO XCO

Reused by (2)
FOODON VALUESETS

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
0 errors · 14 warnings · 3 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
5,387 · 18.06% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: AGRO agroportal: AGRO bioportal: AGRO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.m40bhw obofoundry: agro ols: agro ontobee: AGRO tib.ts: agro wikidata.entity: Q81661533

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)6: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 21: apollo_sv, bfo, caro, chebi, envo, foodon, gaz, go…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2022-11-02 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality18/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density14 warnings / 1035 classes = 0.01+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-04-07 → 18.6 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption5/16
  • Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
  • Reused by other ontologies2: foodon, valuesets+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 70 → 2, citations 0 → 0)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-2
  • Time since last activity1.6 years → 4 × max(0, 1.6 − 1)-2
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 69/100 − 2 inactivity = 67/100 → grade C

Community adoption 2

  • agrofims.org

    AgroFIMS enables digital collection of agronomic data that is semantically described a priori with agronomic terms from AgrO.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • gardian.bigdata.cgiar.org

    AgrO is being used by GARDIAN to facilitate data search within publications and datasets for use in quantitative analyses.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC67 C442022-11-024,162JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Git refs (commit fee03c8, latest tag v2022-11-02)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot