Vocabulary

gesis.thesoz

Thesaurus for the Social Sciences

The Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz) contains about 12,000 entries, of which more than 8,000 are descriptors (authorized keywords) and about 6,000 non-descriptors. Topics from all disciplines of the social sciences are covered. This SKOS version of the thesaurus contains descriptors and non-descriptors in four languages (German, English, French, and Russian) as well as links to the TheSoz Classification, the STW Thesaurus for Economics, the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, and to DBpedia.

economicseducation sciencepolitical sciencesocial and behavioural sciencesocial sciencesocial sciences
E16

FAIR 17/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagedata.gesis.org

Portals & registries

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.d092a4

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR6/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+3
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.7802/2912+3
A Accessible FAIR6/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: —0
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR5/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a
  • Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recencyno activity evidence0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 17/48 · earned 17/80 → scaled 21 − 5 inactivity = 16/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

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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 UTC16 E17——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)data.gesis.org26 Oct 2026, 02:57 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:57 UTC

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

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