Ontology

BIBFRAME

Bibliographic Framework Initiative Vocabulary

The Bibframe vocabulary consists of RDF classes and properties used for the description of items cataloged principally by libraries, but may also be used to describe items cataloged by museums and archives. Classes include the three core classes - Work, Instance, and Item - in addition to many more classes to support description. Properties describe characteristics of the resource being described as well as relationships among resources. For example: one Work might be a "translation of" another Work;

computer sciencemiscellaneousontologysubject agnostic
D42

FAIR 33/48

Version http://id.loc.gov/ontologie…

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageid.loc.gov Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

Also registered as
bioportal: BIBFRAME fairsharing: FAIRsharing.xj5egt tib.ts: bf

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 403+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, RDF+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, RDF+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-3-0-1/ (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality0/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
  • ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
M Maintenance7/16
  • Recency2025-12-03 → 10.7 months (≤ 1 year)+5
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption2/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 56 → 2, citations 0 → 0)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.9 years → 4 × max(0, 0.9 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 33/48 · earned 42/100 = 42/100 → grade D

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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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 UTC42 D33http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-3-0-1/—JSON

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 403)id.loc.gov26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)id.loc.gov26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)id.loc.gov26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Git refs (commit 76753d4, latest tag v2.6)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC

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