Ontology · Legacy

DC

Dublin Core Elements (1.1)

Metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including properties, vocabulary encoding schemes, syntax encoding schemes, and classes. **Deprecation Notice**: While the `/elements/1.1/` namespace will be supported indefinitely, DCMI gently encourages use of the `/terms/` namespace (i.e., `dcterms`) ([source](https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/#section-3)).

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E13

FAIR 24/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagedublincore.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • 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 FAIR0/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
  • 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 Maintenance0/16
  • Recencyno activity evidence0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies447 vocabularies (LOV)+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-15
  • No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
  • Inactive statusmarked legacy-10
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 24/48 · earned 28/100 − 15 inactivity = 13/100 → 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 UTC13 E24—0JSON

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)dublincore.org26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)dublincore.org26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Artefact headerdublincore.org26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:49 UTC

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