Ontology

DataCite

DataCite Ontology

An ontology that enables the metadata properties of the DataCite Metadata Schema Specification (i.e., a list of metadata properties for the accurate and consistent identification of a resource for citation and retrieval purposes) to be described in RDF.

centrally registered identifiernfdixcsontologysubject agnostic
D54

FAIR 40/48

Version 2026-07-23

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagesparontologies.net Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

Logical consistency (ROBOT ELK)
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OOPS!: 0 critical · 1 important · 1 minor pitfall types

Also registered as
aberowl: DATACITE bioportal: DATACITE fairsharing: FAIRsharing.yknezb tib.ts: datacite

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR11/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1007/s10822-014-9776-5+3
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)OWL, RDF+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, 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)2026-07-23 (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 profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • 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 pitfalls0 critical, 1 important, 1 minor pitfall types (SchemaScope Python scan (OOPS! pitfall subset))+1
M Maintenance12/16
  • Recency2026-09-09 → 1.5 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 5 → 1, citations 40 → 1)+1
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 40/48 · earned 54/100 = 54/100 → grade D

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 UTC54 D402026-07-23—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)sparontologies.net26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.org26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)sparontologies.github.io26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Git refs (commit 5d55769, latest tag v2.0.0)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
ROBOT reason/report in SchemaScope CI—25 Oct 2026, 21:55 UTC
OOPS! pitfall scanoops.linkeddata.es25 Oct 2026, 21:56 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/s10822-014-9776-5)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC

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

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