Ontology

PAV

Provenance, Authoring, and Versioning Vocabulary

PAV is a lightweight ontology for tracking provenance, authorship, and versioning. It specializes the W3C provenance ontology PROV-O in order to describe authorship, curation and digital creation of online resources.

data managementontologyqualityresource metadatasubject agnostic
D52

FAIR 37/48

Version 2.3

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagepav-ontology.github.io DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

Logical consistency (ROBOT ELK)
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
ROBOT report
1 errors · 43 warnings

OOPS!: 0 critical · 2 important · 3 minor pitfall types

Also registered as
aberowl: PAV bioportal: PAV fairsharing: FAIRsharing.nbfwwv

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR11/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/2041-1480-4-37+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)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, RDF+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, RDF+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR6/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 (not a recognised open license)+2
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2.3 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality11/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (ROBOT ELK in SchemaScope CI)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • ROBOT report: no errors1 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density43 warnings / 1 classes = 43.000
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls0 critical, 2 important, 3 minor pitfall types (OOPS! (local Docker))+1
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-09-19 → 13.2 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption2/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 84 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity1.1 years → 4 × max(0, 1.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors1 errors against OBO conventions; not penalised (not an OBO-style ontology)0

FAIR subtotal 37/48 · earned 52/100 = 52/100 → 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.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC52 D372.3—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)pav-ontology.github.io26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.org26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)pav-ontology.github.io26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
ROBOT reason/report in SchemaScope CI—25 Oct 2026, 21:54 UTC
OOPS! pitfall scanoops.linkeddata.es25 Oct 2026, 21:54 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/2041-1480-4-37)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC

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

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