Ontology

T4FS

terms4FAIRskills

A terminology for the skills necessary to make data FAIR and to keep it FAIR.

competencecurated informationdigital curationessfairnfdi4ingoboontology
C62

FAIR 47/48

Version 2025-02-09

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)t4fs2025-02-09563621825 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicet4fs2025-02-0956365189 Feb 2025
OBO Dashboardt4fs2025-02-09564——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/t4fs.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/t4fs/releases/2025-02-09/t4fs.owl

Languages en

Imports from (4)
BFO IAO OMO RO

Reused by (2)
GENEPIO SLSO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
18 errors · 70 warnings · 1 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
4,229 · 14.46% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: T4FS bioportal: T4FS fairsharing: FAIRsharing.fb99fa obofoundry: t4fs ols: t4fs ontobee: T4FS tib.ts: t4fs

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:10.5281/zenodo.4772741+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, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 4: bfo, iao, omo, ro+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2025-02-09 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality16/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors18 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density70 warnings / 564 classes = 0.120
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 18 errors0
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-02-09 → 20.5 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption6/16
  • Documented adopting projects3 projects+4
  • Reused by other ontologies2: genepio, slso+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 17 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-9
  • Time since last activity1.7 years → 4 × max(0, 1.7 − 1)-3
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors18 errors-6

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 71/100 − 9 inactivity = 62/100 → grade C

Community adoption 3

  • t4fs.esciencedatafactory.com

    Semaphora integrates terms4FAIRskills, allowing users to annotate training materials with the ontology.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • fairassist.org

    FAIRassist is designed to offer personalised guidance to all stakeholders to enable the discovery of standards and repositories in FAIRsharing, which should be used to make data FAIR, as well as to signpost FAIR assessment resources.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • fairsfair.eu

    FAIRsFAIR Competence Centre (project wp6) will provide a platform for training materials resulting from project training activities, annot

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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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 UTC62 C472025-02-09563JSON

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)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:24 UTC
Git refs (commit af6f076, latest tag v2025-02-09)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

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

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