Ontology
FaBiO
The FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology
The FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO) is an ontology for describing entities that are published or potentially publishable (e.g., journal articles, conference papers, books), and that contain or are referred to by bibliographic references.
Source & access
- homepage purl.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download purl.org HTTP 200
Portals & registries
| Source | ID | Version | Classes | Properties | Individuals | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TIB Terminology Service | fabio | 2.2 | 268 | 155 | 15 | 12 Jun 2023 |
- Logical consistency (ROBOT ELK)
- consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
- ROBOT report
- 31 errors · 749 warnings
OOPS!: 0 critical · 2 important · 3 minor pitfall types
Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.2f3180 tib.ts: fabio
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)purl.org+4
- Indexed in services (F4)3: TIB, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1016/j.websem.2012.08.001+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, RDF+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, RDF+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)2026-09-03 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- 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 errors31 errors0
- ROBOT report: warning density749 warnings / 1 classes = 749.000
- Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls0 critical, 2 important, 3 minor pitfall types (OOPS! (local Docker))+1
- Recency2026-09-03 → 1.7 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)2 releases (GitHub releases)+3
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 11 → 1, citations 155 → 2)+2
- Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
- ROBOT report errors31 errors against OBO conventions; not penalised (not an OBO-style ontology)0
FAIR subtotal 40/48 · earned 66/100 = 66/100 → 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.
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC | 66 C | 40 | 2026-09-03 | — | JSON |
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”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 200) | purl.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | purl.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Artefact header (version IRI) | sparontologies.github.io | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Git refs (commit ea5b2cd, latest tag v2.3.1) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| TIB Terminology Service metrics | service.tib.eu | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| ROBOT reason/report in SchemaScope CI | — | 25 Oct 2026, 21:56 UTC |
| OOPS! pitfall scan | oops.linkeddata.es | 25 Oct 2026, 21:56 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.websem.2012.08.001) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- FaBiO and CiTO: Ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations (2012) · doi:10.1016/j.websem.2012.08.001 · 155 citations