Ontology

PrOM: Provenance Ontology for Form Metadata

PrOM (Provenance Ontology for Form Metadata) is an ontology for tracking the evolution and provenance of clinical and epidemiological form metadata. It captures hierarchical form structures, changes in items and answer options, and the lineage of entire forms, enabling machine-readable documentation of metadata evolution and supporting FAIR principles.

E36

FAIR 26/48

Version file of 2026-09-23

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagew3id.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)w3id.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR5/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+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 & quality0/20
  • 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
M Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-09-23 → 1.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • 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)0
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 26/48 · earned 36/100 = 36/100 → 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 UTC36 E26file of 2026-09-23—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)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
Artefact headerprom-o.codeberg.page26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC

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