Ontology

ECOCORE

An ontology of core ecological entities

Ecocore is a community ontology for the concise and controlled description of ecological traits of organisms.

oboontology
B74

FAIR 44/48

Version 2026-10-08

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)ecocore2026-10-085,7674336425 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardecocore2026-08-31238——16 Sept 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ecocore.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ecocore/releases/2026-10-08/ecocore.owl

Languages en

Imports from (24)
BFO BSPO CARO CHEBI CL COB ENVO FAO GO IAO IDO NBO NCBITaxon OBI OGMS OMO PATO PCO PO PR RO SO TRANS UBERON

Reused by (3)
PCO FOODON VALUESETS

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
6 errors · 11 warnings · 20 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
1,325 · 23.95% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: ECOCORE bioportal: ECOCORE obofoundry: ecocore ols: ecocore ontobee: ECOCORE wikidata.entity: Q81661598

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 24: bfo, bspo, caro, chebi, cl, cob, envo, fao…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-10-08 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality17/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors6 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density11 warnings / 238 classes = 0.05+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 6 errors0
M Maintenance13/16
  • Recency2026-10-08 → 0.6 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)3 releases (GitHub releases)+3
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies3: pco, foodon, valuesets+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 19 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-3
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors6 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 77/100 − 3 inactivity = 74/100 → grade B

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 UTC74 B442026-10-085,767JSON

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 eac691e, latest tag v2026-10-08)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 16 Sept 2026)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