Vocabulary
LOINC
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
The international standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents.
Source & access
- homepage loinc.org HTTP 403
- download aber-owl.net HTTP 200
Portals & registries
Also registered as
aberowl: LOINC bioportal: LOINC fairsharing: FAIRsharing.2mk2zb wikidata.entity: Q502480
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR7/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1016/s1386-5056(98)00089-6+3
A Accessible FAIR12/12
- Homepage reachableHTTP 403+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: CSV0
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR6/12
- Clear license (R1.1)https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/assets/LicenseAgreement.pdf (not a recognised open license)+2
- Release provenance (R1.2)281 (version info in the artefact)+4
- 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 Maintenance8/16
- Recency2026-05-19 → 5.2 months (≤ 6 months)+8
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption1/16
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 39 → 1)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
- Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 25/48 · earned 34/80 → scaled 43 = 43/100 → grade D
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 | 43 D | 25 | 281 | — | 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) | loinc.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:04 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | aber-owl.net | 26 Oct 2026, 03:04 UTC |
| Artefact header (version info) | aber-owl.net | 26 Oct 2026, 03:04 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 03:04 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/s1386-5056(98)00089-6) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:04 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/jamia/ocu012) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:04 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- Combining laboratory data sets from multiple institutions using the logical observation identifier names and codes (LOINC) (1998) · doi:10.1016/s1386-5056(98)00089-6 · 39 citations
- Supporting interoperability of genetic data with LOINC (2015) · doi:10.1093/jamia/ocu012 · 22 citations