Vocabulary

GND

Gemeinsame Normdatei

The Gemeinsame Normdatei (Integrated Authority File) or GND is an international authority file for person names, subject headings and corporate bodies. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives and museums. The GND is managed by the German National Library in cooperation with various regional library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners.

cultureknowledge and information systemssocial science
E13

FAIR 14/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagelobid.org

Portals & registries

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.8337e2 wikidata.entity: Q54506313

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 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)CC0 1.0+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 14/48 · earned 14/80 → scaled 18 − 5 inactivity = 13/100 → grade E

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 UTC13 E14——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)lobid.org26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC

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