Ontology

HSO

Health Surveillance Ontology

The health Surveillance Ontology (HSO) focuses on "surveillance system level data", that is, data outputs from surveillance activities, such as number of samples collected, cases observed, etc. It aims to support One-Health surveillance, covering animal health, public health and food safety surveillance.

oboontology
E37

FAIR 43/48

Version 2021-12-13

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagew3id.org Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)hso2021-12-1344830319225 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardhso2021-12-13127——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hso.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hso/2021-12-13/hso.owl

Languages ar cs el en es fr it ja

Imports from (15)
BFO BSPO CHMO DOID ENVO GAZ GENEPIO IAO IDO NCBITaxon NCIT OBI RO SIO UBERON

Reused by (1)
GENEPIO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
19 errors · 121 warnings · 24 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
1,061 · 18.41% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: HSO bioportal: HSO obofoundry: hso ols: hso ontobee: HSO wikidata.entity: Q113012664

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+5
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 15: bfo, bspo, chmo, doid, envo, gaz, genepio, iao…+4
R Reusable FAIR10/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2021-12-13 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 6/13 checks pass+1
Q Ontology consistency & quality14/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors19 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density121 warnings / 127 classes = 0.950
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 19 errors0
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2021-12-13 → 58.4 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (OLS version IRI)0
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies1: genepio+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 4 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-21
  • Time since last activity4.9 years → 4 × max(0, 4.9 − 1)-15
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors19 errors-6

FAIR subtotal 43/48 · earned 58/100 − 21 inactivity = 37/100 → 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 UTC37 E432021-12-13448JSON

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)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Git refs (commit 2cb6a9b)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC

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