Ontology

PROV-O

PROV Namespace

The namespace name http://www.w3.org/ns/prov# is intended for use with the PROV family of documents that support the interchange of provenance on the web.

data managementessmetadata standardizationnfdi-matwerknfdi4chemnfdi4ingontologyresource metadata
D43

FAIR 31/48

Version http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-o…

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)prov—3172125 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology ServiceprovRecommendation version 2013-04-30307032 Feb 2023

Ontology IRI http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#

Languages en

Logical consistency (ROBOT ELK)
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
ROBOT report
18 errors · 99 warnings

OOPS!: 1 critical · 2 important · 2 minor pitfall types

Also registered as
biodivportal: PROV-O bioportal: PROVO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.2rm2b3 ols: prov tib.ts: prov

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR5/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
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, Turtle+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, Turtle+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR6/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)W3C-20150513 (not a recognised open license)+2
  • Release provenance (R1.2)http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-o-20130430 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality10/20
  • 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 errors18 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density99 warnings / 31 classes = 3.190
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls1 critical, 2 important, 2 minor pitfall types (SchemaScope Python scan (OOPS! pitfall subset))0
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-09-03 → 13.7 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies83 vocabularies (LOV)+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-4
  • Time since last activity1.1 years → 4 × max(0, 1.1 − 1)-1
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • Critical pitfalls1 critical pitfall type (P19) × 3-3
  • ROBOT report errors18 errors against OBO conventions; not penalised (not an OBO-style ontology)0

FAIR subtotal 31/48 · earned 47/100 − 4 inactivity = 43/100 → grade D

Community adoption 0

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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 UTC43 D31http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-o-2013043031JSON

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)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC
ROBOT reason/report in SchemaScope CI—25 Oct 2026, 21:54 UTC
OOPS! pitfall scanoops.linkeddata.es25 Oct 2026, 21:54 UTC

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