Vocabulary

GOLDBOOK

IUPAC Gold Book Compendium of Chemical Terminology

The Compendium is popularly referred to as the "Gold Book", in recognition of the contribution of the late Victor Gold, who initiated work on the first edition. It is one of the series of IUPAC "Colour Books" on chemical nomenclature, terminology, symbols and units (see the list of source documents), and collects together terminology definitions from IUPAC recommendations already published in Pure and Applied Chemistry and in the other Colour Books.

E10

FAIR 12/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegoldbook.iupac.org

Portals & registries

Also registered as
wikidata.entity: Q902163

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR1/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)1: Bioregistry+1
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR6/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 403+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-SA 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 12/48 · earned 12/80 → scaled 15 − 5 inactivity = 10/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

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History & changes 1 run

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RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC10 E12——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 403)goldbook.iupac.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