Ontology · Legacy

CARO

Common Anatomy Reference Ontology

The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO) is being developed to facilitate interoperability between existing anatomy ontologies for different species, and will provide a template for building new anatomy ontologies.

anatomyannotationlife scienceoboontology
D49

FAIR 45/48

Version 2023-03-15

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com Repositorygithub.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)caro2023-03-15720279025 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/caro.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/caro/releases/2023-03-15/caro.owl

Languages en

Imports from (10)
BFO CHEBI CL GO IAO NCBITaxon PATO PR RO SO

Reused by (42)
AEO AFO AGRO AISM BCGO BCO BMONT BSPO COLAO CTENO DPO ECAO ECOCORE EHDAA2 FBbt FLOPO FOVT GALLONT HCAO HTN IDO IDOCOVID19 IDOMAL LEPAO NGBO OHPI OMIABIS ONTONEO OPMI OVAE PATO PCO PHIPO PLANA PLANP PORO RBO SEPIO TAO UBERON VSAO WBPhenotype

Also registered as
aberowl: CARO biodivportal: CARO bioportal: CARO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.3kcgmr obofoundry: caro ols: caro ontobee: CARO wikidata.entity: Q55118319

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-885-2_16+3
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 10: bfo, chebi, cl, go, iao, ncbitaxon, pato, pr…+4
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-03-15 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality4/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • 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 Maintenance5/16
  • Recency2026-01-19 → 9.2 months (≤ 1 year)+5
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption5/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies42: aeo, afo, agro, aism, bcgo, bco…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 3 → 0, citations 43 → 1)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-10
  • Time since last activity0.8 years → 4 × max(0, 0.8 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusmarked legacy-10
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 45/48 · earned 59/100 − 10 inactivity = 49/100 → 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 UTC49 D452023-03-15720JSON

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, 02:41 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Git refs (commit 41b90e7, latest tag v2023-03-15)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-885-2_16)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC

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

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