Ontology

SWEET

Semantic Web for Earth and Environment Technology Ontology

The Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology is a mature foundational ontology that contains over 6000 concepts organized in 200 ontologies represented in OWL. Top level concepts include Representation (math, space, science, time, data), Realm (Ocean, Land Surface, Terrestrial Hydroshere, Atmosphere, etc.), Phenomena (macro-scale ecological and physical), Processes (micro-scale physical, biological, chemical, and mathematical), Human Activities (Decision, Commerce, Jurisdiction, Environmental, Research).

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E33

FAIR 34/48

Version 3.6.0

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
TIB Terminology Servicesweet3.6.010,2383832,14825 Oct 2023

Also registered as
biodivportal: SWEET bioportal: SWEET fairsharing: FAIRsharing.jh4xht tib.ts: sweet

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR5/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: TIB, BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+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)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 FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)3.6.0 (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 Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2024-07-25 → 27.0 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 147 → 4, citations 0 → 0)+4
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • Time since last activity2.3 years → 4 × max(0, 2.3 − 1)-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 34/48 · earned 38/100 − 5 inactivity = 33/100 → 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 UTC33 E343.6.0—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)sweetontology.net26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Artefact header (version info)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Git refs (commit db60c8d, latest tag v3.5.0)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 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