Ontology

ROR

Research Organization Registry

ROR (Research Organization Registry) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. ROR is jointly operated by California Digital Library, Crossref, and Datacite.

centrally registered identifierdata identity and mappingomicsontologyorganizationorganizationssubject agnostic
E37

FAIR 40/48

Version 2.0

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)ror2.01022137,74325 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/ror/ror.ofn
Version IRI https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/ror/2.0/ror.ofn

Languages aa ab af am an ar as az ba be bg bi bn bs ca ch co cs cu cy da de dv dz el en es et eu fa fi fo fr fy ga gd gl gu gv ha he hi hr ht hu hy id is it iu ja jv ka kg ki kk kl km kn ko kr ku ky la lb lo lt lu lv mg mi mk ml mn mr ms mt my na nb ne nl nn no nr oc oj om or pa pl ps pt rm ro ru rw sa sd se si sk sl sm so sq sr ss st sv sw ta te tg th ti tk tl tn tr ts tt ug uk ur uz ve vi xh yo za zh zu

Imports from (6)
ENVO IAO NCBITaxon OBI OMO RO

Reused by (1)
VALUESETS

Also registered as
aberowl: ROR bioportal: ROR fairsharing: FAIRsharing.1jKfji ols: ror wikidata.entity: Q110235640

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)w3id.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: OLS, BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 429+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)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 6: envo, iao, ncbitaxon, obi, omo, ro+4
R Reusable FAIR7/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2.0 (OLS); not declared inside the artefact+2
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality1/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • 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 Maintenance0/16
  • Recencyno activity evidence0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies1: valuesets+1
  • 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
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 40/48 · earned 42/100 − 5 inactivity = 37/100 → 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 UTC37 E402.010JSON

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 429)ror.org26 Oct 2026, 03:19 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:19 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 03:19 UTC
Artefact headerraw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:19 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:19 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:19 UTC

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