Ontology

OGMS

Ontology for General Medical Science

The Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) is an ontology of entities involved in a clinical encounter. OGMS includes very general terms that are used across medical disciplines, including: 'disease', 'disorder', 'disease course', 'diagnosis', 'patient', and 'healthcare provider'. OGMS uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper-level ontology. The scope of OGMS is restricted to humans, but many terms can be applied to a variety of organisms.

biomedical sciencecancerdiagnosisdiseasedisease phenotypemedicineoboontology
B76

FAIR 47/48

Version 2021-08-19

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)ogms2021-08-19186591825 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardogms2021-08-19187——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms/2021-08-19/ogms.owl

Languages en

Imports from (4)
BFO IAO IDO OBI

Reused by (70)
ADO AGRO APOLLO_SV BMONT CIDO CTO CVDO DIDEO DRON EPIO EXMO GECKO GENEPIO GSSO HTN ICO IDO LABO MF MFOEM MFOMD MPIO NGBO OAE OBCS OBI OBIB OHD OHPI OMRSE ONE ONS OOSTT OPMI ORNASEQ OVAE PDRO PSDO RO SCDO STATO TXPO VO ADDICTO BCGO BCIO CCO ECOCORE EFO EUPATH GENO GEXO GMHO IDOCOVID19 MFMO MSIO OGSF OHMI OMIABIS ONTONEO PAIN PHIPO PLANP PRIDE PSO RBO REHABO RETO REXO SLSO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
6 errors · 8 warnings · 0 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
1,812 · 56.46% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: OGMS bioportal: OGMS fairsharing: FAIRsharing.rvz0m9 obofoundry: ogms ols: ogms ontobee: OGMS wikidata.entity: Q55118512

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/2041-1480-4-42+3
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, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 4: bfo, iao, ido, obi+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2021-08-19 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality16/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • ROBOT report: no errors6 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density8 warnings / 187 classes = 0.04+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 6 errors0
M Maintenance8/16
  • Recency2026-06-10 → 4.5 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption8/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies70: ado, agro, apollo_sv, bmont, cido, cto…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 29 → 2, citations 40 → 1)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-3
  • Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors6 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 79/100 − 3 inactivity = 76/100 → grade B

Community adoption 1

  • (multiple)

    Multiple ontologies using OGMS terms, such as the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), Relation Ontology (RO), Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO), Representation of Social Entities (OMRSE), and Mental Disease Ontology (MFOMD). OG…

    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 UTC76 B472021-08-19186JSON

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, 03:10 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC
Git refs (commit 1a8c3d5, latest tag 2021-08-19)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/2041-1480-4-42)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC

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

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