Vocabulary
CF Standard Names
Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table
The controlled vocabulary of the CF metadata conventions, giving precise names, units and descriptions for climate, ocean and atmosphere variables in netCDF data.
Source & access
- homepage cfconventions.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download cfconventions.org HTTP 200
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR0/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
- Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR9/12
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: XML0
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR7/12
- Clear license (R1.1)CC0-1.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)v1.13.0 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a
- Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance12/16
- Recency2026-10-13 → 0.4 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption4/16
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 100 → 4, citations 0 → 0)+4
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
- Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 16/48 · earned 32/80 → scaled 40 = 40/100 → grade D
Community adoption 0
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History & changes 1 run
History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC | 40 D | 16 | v1.13.0 | — | 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”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 200) | cfconventions.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | cfconventions.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC |
| Artefact header | cfconventions.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC |
| Git refs (commit afaf687, latest tag v1.13.0) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot