Ontology

ECAO

The Echinoderm Anatomy and Development Ontology

The Echinoderm Anatomy and Development Ontology: None. A ontology listed in Bioregistry, OBO Foundry, OLS (EMBL-EBI).

oboontology
C55

FAIR 44/48

Version 2025-05-15

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)ecao2025-05-157,3094546725 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardecao2025-05-15933——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ecao.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ecao/releases/2025-05-15/ecao.owl

Languages en

Imports from (16)
BFO BSPO CARO CHEBI CL ENVO GO IAO NBO NCBITaxon OMO PATO PR RO SO UBERON

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
6 errors · 614 warnings · 5 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
7,645 · 1.9% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: ECAO bioportal: ECAO obofoundry: ecao ols: ecao ontobee: ECAO wikidata.entity: Q113012596

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+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)OBO Foundry, 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 16: bfo, bspo, caro, chebi, cl, envo, go, iao…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2025-05-15 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality14/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors6 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density614 warnings / 933 classes = 0.660
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 6 errors0
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-05-15 → 17.4 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (OLS version IRI)0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 2 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • Time since last activity1.4 years → 4 × max(0, 1.4 − 1)-2
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors6 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 60/100 − 5 inactivity = 55/100 → grade C

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 UTC55 C442025-05-157,309JSON

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, 02:53 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
Git refs (commit 65546ea)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC

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