Ontology

ICO

Informed Consent Ontology

The Informed Consent Ontology (ICO) is an ontology for the informed consent and informed consent process in the medical field.

biomedical scienceclinical studieshealth sciencemedicineoboontology
B78

FAIR 45/48

Version 2026-02-28

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.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)ico2026-02-281,1971762225 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardico2026-02-28449——18 Mar 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ico.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ico/releases/2026-02-28/ico.owl

Languages en en-us

Imports from (27)
APOLLO_SV BFO CHEBI CHMO CL DUO ENVO GAZ GEOGEO GO IAO MONDO NCBITaxon NCIT OAE OBI OBIB OGMS OMRSE OOSTT PATO PR RO SIO SO UBERON UO

Reused by (9)
BMONT OBIB ONS OPMI SCDO ADO CIDO GENEPIO NGBO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
0 errors · 12 warnings · 2 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
2,656 · 15.86% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: ICO bioportal: ICO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.b9znd5 obofoundry: ico ols: ico ontobee: ICO wikidata.entity: Q55118417

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+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 27: apollo_sv, bfo, chebi, chmo, cl, duo, envo, gaz…+4
R Reusable FAIR12/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-02-28 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 11/13 checks pass+3
Q Ontology consistency & quality18/20
  • 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 errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density12 warnings / 449 classes = 0.03+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-06-26 → 4.0 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption5/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies9: bmont, obib, ons, opmi, scdo, ado…+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 10 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 45/48 · earned 78/100 = 78/100 → grade B

Community adoption 1

  • kpmp.org

    tracking informed consent in the kidney precision medicine project that has over 20 institutes involved.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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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 UTC78 B452026-02-281,197JSON

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)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
Git refs (commit f5fad83, latest tag v2026-02-28)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 18 Mar 2026)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