Vocabulary

DCTERMS

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms

This document is an up-to-date specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including properties, vocabulary encoding schemes, syntax encoding schemes, and classes.

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D41

FAIR 34/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagedublincore.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)dcterms—2255025 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicedcterms—27611002 Feb 2023

Ontology IRI http://purl.org/dc/terms/

Languages en

Reused by (192)
ADDICTO ADO AFO AfPO AGRO AIO AISM APOLLO_SV BAO BCIO BCO BFO BMONT BSPO CARO CCF CDAO CDNO CHEBI CHEMINF CHMO CIDO CL CLAO CLO COB COHO COLAO COVOC CPONT CREDIT CRYOEM CTENO CVDO DCAT DDANAT DDPHENO DIDEO DISDRIV DOID DPO DRON DUO EC ECAO ECO ECOCORE ECTO EFO EMAPA EMI EMRO ENM ENVO EPIO EUPATH EVORAO EXMO ExO FBbi FBbt FBcv FBdv FIDEO FLOPO FMA FOBI FOODON FOVT FYPO GALLONT GENEPIO GENO GEOGEO GMHO GO GSSO HANCESTRO HCAO HGNC hgnc.genegroup HP HRA HSO HTN IAO ICEO ICO ICTV INO biomodels.kisao LABO LEPAO MAXO MCRO MESH METPO MF MFMO MFOEM MFOMD MIAPA MONDO MOP MP MPIO MRO NBO NCBITaxon NCIT NGBO NMR OAE OBA OBCS OBI OBIB OCCO OGMS OGSF OHD OHMI OHPI OM OMIT OMO OMRSE ONE ONS ONTOAVIDA ONTONEO OOSTT OPL OPMI ORPHA ORTH PAIN PATO PBPKO PCL PCO PDRO PHIPO PLANA PLANP PO PPO PREFER PRIDE PROCO PSDO PSO RBO REHABO REPRODUCEME RO ROR RXNO schema.org SCHEMAORG_HTTPS SEMAPV SEPIO SIO SLM SLSO SRAO STATO SWO SYMP T4FS TAXRANK TFO TO TRANS UBERON UO UPHENO VALUESETS VBO VO VT VTO WBbt WBls WBPhenotype WIKIPATHWAYS XAO XPO ZECO ZFA ZFS ZP

Logical consistency (ROBOT ELK)
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
ROBOT report
4 errors · 0 warnings

OOPS!: 1 critical · 2 important · 0 minor pitfall types

Also registered as
aberowl: DCTERMS bioportal: DCTERMS fairsharing: FAIRsharing.9vtwjs ols: dcterms tib.ts: dcterms

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • 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, Turtle+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)RDF, Turtle+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR5/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • 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 & quality11/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (ROBOT ELK in SchemaScope CI)+10
  • 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 errors4 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density0 warnings / 22 classes = 0.00+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls1 critical, 2 important, 0 minor pitfall types (SchemaScope Python scan (OOPS! pitfall subset))0
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recencyno activity evidence0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies673 vocabularies (LOV)+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-8
  • No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • Critical pitfalls1 critical pitfall type (P39) × 3-3
  • ROBOT report errors4 errors against OBO conventions; not penalised (not an OBO-style ontology)0

FAIR subtotal 34/48 · earned 49/100 − 8 inactivity = 41/100 → 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 UTC41 D34—22JSON

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, 02:50 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.org26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC
Artefact headerdublincore.org26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC
ROBOT reason/report in SchemaScope CI—25 Oct 2026, 21:54 UTC
OOPS! pitfall scanoops.linkeddata.es25 Oct 2026, 21:54 UTC

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