Vocabulary

LCSH

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) has been actively maintained since 1898 to catalog materials held at the Library of Congress. (from homepage)

locsubject agnostic

E13

FAIR 14/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageid.loc.gov

homepage id.loc.gov HTTP 403

Portals & registries

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.d31795 wikidata.entity: Q17109002

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 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)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.

Run	Score	FAIR	Version evaluated	Terms	Snapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC	13 E	14	—	—	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”.

Fact	Source	Retrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 403)	id.loc.gov	26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse	bioregistry.io	26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC

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