Ontology
OBOE
The Extensible Observation Ontology
The Extensible Observation Ontology (OBOE) is a formal ontology for capturing the semantics of scientific observation and measurement. The ontology supports researchers to add detailed semantic annotations to scientific data, thereby clarifying the inherent meaning of scientific observations.
Source & access
- homepage github.com HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download raw.githubusercontent.com HTTP 200
Portals & registries
Also registered as
agroportal: OBOE biodivportal: OBOE bioportal: OBOE fairsharing: FAIRsharing.5970hq tib.ts: oboe-core
Automated evaluation
- 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/j.ecoinf.2007.05.004+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)Version 1.2 (version info in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
- ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
- Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
- Recency2019-09-18 → 85.3 months (older / unknown)0
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 33 → 2, citations 209 → 2)+2
- Time since last activity7.1 years → 4 × max(0, 7.1 − 1) (capped)-20
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 36/48 · earned 38/100 − 20 inactivity = 18/100 → grade E
Community adoption 0
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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 | 18 E | 36 | Version 1.2 | — | 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 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | raw.githubusercontent.com | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
| Artefact header (version info) | raw.githubusercontent.com | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
| Git refs (commit d4ee5bc, latest tag OBOE_1_2) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.05.004) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- An ontology for describing and synthesizing ecological observation data (2007) · doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.05.004 · 209 citations