Ontology

SWO

Software Ontology

The Software Ontology (SWO) is a resource for describing software tools, their types, tasks, versions, provenance and associated data. It contains detailed information on licensing and formats as well as software applications themselves, mainly (but not limited) to the bioinformatics community.

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D53

FAIR 47/48

Version 2023-03-05

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)swo2023-03-051,97124044625 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Serviceswo2023-03-051,97024244621 Aug 2023
OBO Dashboardswo2023-03-050——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swo/swo.owl
Version IRI http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swo/swo/releases/2023-03-05/swo.owl

Languages en en-us

Imports from (11)
APOLLO_SV BFO EDAM GO IAO NCBITaxon OBI OMO PATO RO UO

Reused by (1)
MCRO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
—
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20

Also registered as
aberowl: SWO biodivportal: SWO bioportal: SWO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.sp3szt obofoundry: swo ols: swo ontobee: SWO tib.ts: swo wikidata.entity: Q113014439

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)6: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-25+3
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 11: apollo_sv, bfo, edam, go, iao, ncbitaxon, obi, omo…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-03-05 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 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+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • 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
  • Recency2023-03-05 → 43.7 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies1: mcro+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 58 → 2, citations 69 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-11
  • Time since last activity3.6 years → 4 × max(0, 3.6 − 1)-11
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 64/100 − 11 inactivity = 53/100 → 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 UTC53 D472023-03-051,971JSON

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, 03:24 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
Git refs (commit 839b92d, latest tag v2023-03-05)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-25)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC

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

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