Ontology

ENVO

Environment Ontology

The Environment Ontology is a resource and research target for the semantically controlled description of environmental entities. The ontology's initial aim was the representation of the biomes, environmental features, and environmental materials pertinent to genomic and microbiome-related investigations.

dataplantearth sciencesecologyenvironmental materialenvironmental scienceepidemiologyessfair data spaces
A86

FAIR 47/48

Version 2026-10-23

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageenvironmentontology.org Repositorygithub.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)envo2026-10-237,0732905025 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Serviceenvo2025-10-206,9062784424 Oct 2025
OBO Dashboardenvo2026-06-264,771——18 Jul 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo/releases/2026-10-23/envo.owl

Languages de en en-br en-us es it zh

Imports from (16)
BFO CHEBI COB FAO FOODON GO IAO NCBITaxon OBI OMO PATO PCO PO RO schema.org UBERON

Reused by (70)
AGRO APOLLO_SV CIDO DPO ECOCORE ECTO FOODON GENEPIO GENO GSSO HSO MONDO OBI OHD OHMI OPMI PCO RBO RO SLSO UBERON ADDICTO AFO AISM BCGO BCIO BCO CAO CDNO CHIRO CLO COB COHO DISDRIV DOID ECAO ENM EUPATH EXMO FOVT GALLONT GO MIXS HCAO HTN ICO IDOMAL MFMO MICRO MP OBIB OMRSE ONE ONS OOSTT PBPKO PECO PHIPO PLANP PREFER PRIDE PSO ROR SCDO VALUESETS VBO WBbt WBls WBPhenotype XPO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
2 errors · 261 warnings · 264 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
36,686 · 11.67% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: ENVO agroportal: ENVO biodivportal: ENVO bioportal: ENVO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.azqskx obofoundry: envo ols: envo ontobee: ENVO tib.ts: envo wikidata.entity: Q31110555

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)6: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0097-6+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)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, chebi, cob, fao, foodon, go, iao, ncbitaxon…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-10-23 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality16/20
  • 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 errors2 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density261 warnings / 4771 classes = 0.050
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 2 errors0
M Maintenance13/16
  • Recency2026-10-23 → 0.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)2 releases (GitHub releases)+3
U Community adoption13/16
  • Documented adopting projects6 projects+5
  • Reused by other ontologies70: agro, apollo_sv, cido, dpo, ecocore, ecto…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 172 → 4, citations 195 → 2)+4
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 errors2 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 89/100 − 3 inactivity = 86/100 → grade A

Community adoption 6

  • eol.org

    describing species habitats

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • globalbioticinteractions.org

    describing stomach contents

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • nature.com

    annotating datasets in data repositories

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • oceans.taraexpeditions.org

    Samples collected during Tara Oceans expedition are annotated with ENVO

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Annotation of habitats of microbes

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • planetmicrobe.org

    Annotation and semantic search over microbial data sets

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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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 UTC86 A472026-10-237,073JSON

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)environmentontology.org26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
Git refs (commit c6730c4, latest tag v2026-10-23)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 18 Jul 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0097-6)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/database/baw005)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC

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

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