Ontology

SEPIO

Scientific Evidence and Provenance Information Ontology

An ontology for representing the provenance of scientific claims and the evidence that supports them.

mathematicsnfdi4chemnfdi4ingoboontology
C61

FAIR 44/48

Version 2023-06-13

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)sepio2023-06-131253132125 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicesepio—116168212 Feb 2023
OBO Dashboardsepio2023-06-13127——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/sepio.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/sepio/releases/2023-06-13/sepio.owl

Languages en

Imports from (10)
BFO CARO COB GO IAO OBI OMO PATO RO STATO

Reused by (3)
ADDICTO BCIO GMHO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
2 errors · 50 warnings · 1 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
3,058 · 68.02% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: SEPIO bioportal: SEPIO obofoundry: sepio ols: sepio ontobee: SEPIO tib.ts: sepio wikidata.entity: Q55118599

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+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)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 10: bfo, caro, cob, go, iao, obi, omo, pato…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-06-13 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 8/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality14/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors2 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density50 warnings / 127 classes = 0.390
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 2 errors0
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-10-02 → 12.8 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies3: addicto, bcio, gmho+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 52 → 2, citations 0 → 0)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-3
  • 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 errors2 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 64/100 − 3 inactivity = 61/100 → grade C

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 UTC61 C442023-06-13125JSON

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)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Git refs (commit 461b854, latest tag v2023-06-13)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC

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