Vocabulary

ORCID

Open Researcher and Contributor

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers. ORCID records hold non-sensitive information such as name, email, organization name, and research activities.

centrally registered identifierdigital curationpersonsubject agnostic
E16

FAIR 17/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageorcid.org

Portals & registries

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.nx58jg wikidata.entity: Q51044

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR6/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+3
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.23640/07243.16687207.v1+3
A Accessible FAIR6/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+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 17/48 · earned 17/80 → scaled 21 − 5 inactivity = 16/100 → 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.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC16 E17——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”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)orcid.org26 Oct 2026, 03:12 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:12 UTC

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

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