Ontology

SHEX

Shape Expression Vocabulary

The Shape Expressions (ShEx) language describes RDF nodes and graph structures. A node constraint describes an RDF node (IRI, blank node or literal) and a shape describes the triples involving nodes in an RDF graph. These descriptions identify predicates and their associated cardinalities and datatypes. ShEx shapes can be used to communicate data structures associated with some process or interface, generate or validate data, or drive user interfaces.

metadataontologyrdfsemantic web
E35

FAIR 25/48

Version ; rdfs:seeAlso

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagew3.org Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR1/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)1: Bioregistry+1
  • 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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR4/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2); rdfs:seeAlso (version info 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 Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-08-06 → 2.6 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 1 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.2 years → 4 × max(0, 0.2 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 25/48 · earned 35/100 = 35/100 → grade E

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 UTC35 E25; rdfs:seeAlso—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)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Artefact header (version info)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Git refs (commit b4e1d78)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:21 UTC

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