Ontology

SRAO

FAIRsharing Subject Ontology

The FAIRsharing Subject Ontology (SRAO) is an application ontology for the categorization of research disciplines across all research domains, from the humanities to the natural sciences. It utilizes multiple external vocabularies.

agriculturebiomedical scienceclassificationcomputer scienceearth scienceenvironmental sciencefairfairsharing
E38

FAIR 37/48

Version 2025-06-01

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)srao2025-06-0144544025 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI http://www.fairsharing.org/ontology/subject/SRAO.owl
Version IRI http://www.fairsharing.org/ontology/subject/SRAO/releases/2025-06-01/SRAO.owl

Languages en

Imports from (6)
EDAM IAO NCIT OBI OMIT PO

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.b1xD9f ols: srao

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: OLS, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • 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 FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 6: edam, iao, ncit, obi, omit, po+4
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2025-06-01 (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 Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-06-09 → 16.6 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 10 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-2
  • Time since last activity1.4 years → 4 × max(0, 1.4 − 1)-2
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 37/48 · earned 40/100 − 2 inactivity = 38/100 → 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 UTC38 E372025-06-01445JSON

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, 03:23 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Git refs (commit e434358, latest tag v2025-06-01)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC

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