Vocabulary

commoncoreontology

Common Core Ontologies

The Common Core Ontologies (CCO) comprise twelve ontologies that are designed to represent and integrate taxonomies of generic classes and relations across all domains of interest. CCO is a mid-level extension of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), an upper-level ontology framework widely used to structure and integrate ontologies in the biomedical domain (Arp, et al., 2015). BFO aims to represent the most generic categories of entity and the most generic types of relations that hold between them, by defining a small number of classes and relations.

engineeringnfdi4ingontologyupper-level ontology
D49

FAIR 32/48

Version 2026-08-13

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageontologyrepository.com Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
TIB Terminology ServiceccoVersion 1.71,42232235015 Feb 2025

Also registered as
tib.ts: cco

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 FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-08-13 (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 Maintenance13/16
  • Recency2026-10-02 → 0.8 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)2 releases (GitHub releases)+3
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 389 → 4, citations 0 → 0)+4
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 32/48 · earned 49/100 = 49/100 → 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.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC49 D322026-08-13—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)ontologyrepository.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)release-assets.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
Git refs (commit be13b74, latest tag v2021-03-01)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC

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