Ontology

COVOC

CoVoc Coronavirus Vocabulary

The COVID-19 Vocabulary (COVoc) is an ontology containing terms related to the research of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes host organisms, pathogenicity, gene and gene products, barrier gestures, treatments and more.

ontology
E25

FAIR 36/48

Version 2022-10-26

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)covoc2022-10-26563652025 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/covoc.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/covoc/releases/2022-10-26/covoc.owl

Languages en

Imports from (22)
BSPO CHEBI CHMO CIDO CL CLO EFO GO HANCESTRO HP IAO IDO MAXO MONDO NCBITaxon NCIT OBI OMIT PATO PR RO UBERON

Also registered as
ols: covoc

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR3/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: OLS, 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 FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 22: bspo, chebi, chmo, cido, cl, clo, efo, go…+4
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2022-10-26 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality1/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • 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
  • Recency2022-10-27 → 48.0 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 3 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-12
  • Time since last activity4.0 years → 4 × max(0, 4.0 − 1)-12
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 36/48 · earned 37/100 − 12 inactivity = 25/100 → 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 UTC25 E362022-10-26563JSON

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)github.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 71cb811, latest tag v2022-10-26)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 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