Vocabulary

CMECS

Costal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard

Use this database to browse the CMECS classification and to get definitions for individual CMECS Units. This database contains the units that were published in the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard.

ecologymarine ecologyontology
E35

FAIR 17/48

Version v1.1.2

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagecmecscatalog.org Repositorygithub.com

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR1/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)1: Bioregistry+1
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)only the source repository is reachable (no direct download)+3
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: —0
  • 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)v1.1.2 (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 Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-07-23 → 3.1 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 9 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 17/48 · earned 28/80 → scaled 35 = 35/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

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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 UTC35 E17v1.1.2—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)cmecscatalog.org26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Git refs (commit 9f20bb5, latest tag v1.1.2)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 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