Vocabulary

CC

Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL) lets you describe copyright licenses in RDF. For more information on describing licenses in RDF and attaching those descriptions to digital works, see [ccREL](https://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_REL) in the [Creative Commons wiki](https://wiki.creativecommons.org/).

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E20

FAIR 28/48

Version file of 2023-09-11

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagecreativecommons.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
TIB Terminology Serviceccrel—29191412 Sept 2024

Also registered as
tib.ts: ccrel

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR3/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: TIB, Bioregistry+3
  • 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)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)RDF+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)RDF+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR5/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
  • 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 Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2023-09-11 → 37.5 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-8
  • Time since last activity3.1 years → 4 × max(0, 3.1 − 1)-8
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 28/48 · earned 28/100 − 8 inactivity = 20/100 → grade E

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 UTC20 E28file of 2023-09-11—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 200)creativecommons.org26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)creativecommons.org26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Artefact headercreativecommons.org26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC

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