Ontology

CIDOC CRM

CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

A formal ontology for integrating cultural heritage information, standardised as ISO 21127 and used by museums, archives and libraries to describe objects, events, people and places.

cultural heritagemuseumsISO 21127
D44

FAIR 34/48

Version 7.1.3

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagecidoc-crm.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
TIB Terminology ServicecidocRDFs Implementation (November 2021) of CIDOC-CRM 7.1.176311030 Apr 2025

Also registered as
aberowl: CIDOC-CRM bioportal: CIDOC-CRM fairsharing: FAIRsharing.9xcr4z tib.ts: cidoc

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR5/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: TIB, BioPortal, 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)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 FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)7.1.3 (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 Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-10-02 → 0.8 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • 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)0
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 34/48 · earned 44/100 = 44/100 → grade D

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

Know a project that uses CIDOC CRM? Suggest it.

History & changes 1 run

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

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC44 D347.1.3—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)cidoc-crm.org26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)cidoc-crm.org26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)cidoc-crm.org26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC

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