Ontology

SAREF

Smart Applications Reference ontology

The Smart Applications REFerence ontology (SAREF) is intended to enable interoperability between solutions from different providers and among various activity sectors in the Internet of Things (IoT), thus contributing to the development of the global digital market.

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D40

FAIR 29/48

Version v4.1.1

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagesaref.etsi.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
TIB Terminology Servicesarefv3.1.181551024 Sept 2025

Also registered as
agroportal: SAREF tib.ts: saref

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR3/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: TIB, Bioregistry+3
  • 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)https://forge.etsi.org/etsi-software-license (not a recognised open license)+2
  • Release provenance (R1.2)v4.1.1 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • 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 Maintenance8/16
  • Recency2026-06-26 → 4.0 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies10 vocabularies (LOV)+3
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 29/48 · earned 40/100 = 40/100 → 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 UTC40 D29v4.1.1—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)saref.etsi.org26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)saref.etsi.org26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)saref.etsi.org26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC

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