Vocabulary

FRBR

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

The Essential FRBR in OWL2 DL Ontology (FRBR) is an expression in OWL 2 DL of the basic concepts and relations described in the IFLA report on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), also described in Ian Davis's RDF vocabulary. It is imported by FaBiO and BiRO.

frbrsubject agnostic
D41

FAIR 27/48

Version v1.1.0

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagesparontologies.net Repositorygithub.com

Portals & registries

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.b34b43

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR3/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+3
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)only the source repository is reachable (no direct download)+3
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)RDF+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)RDF+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR7/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC-BY-4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)v1.1.0 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality0/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
  • ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
M Maintenance12/16
  • Recency2026-09-09 → 1.5 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption2/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies8 vocabularies (LOV)+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 2 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 27/48 · earned 41/100 = 41/100 → grade D

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 UTC41 D27v1.1.0—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”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)sparontologies.net26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Git refs (commit 0ac67d4, latest tag v1.1.0)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC

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