Vocabulary

unesco.thesaurus

UNESCO Thesaurus

The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled and structured list of terms used in subject analysis and retrieval of documents and publications in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, communication and information. Continuously enriched and updated, its multidisciplinary terminology reflects the evolution of UNESCO's programmes and activities. [from homepage]

communication sciencecultureeducation scienceontologypolitical sciencesubject agnostic
E9

FAIR 11/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagevocabularies.unesco.org

Portals & registries

Also registered as
biodivportal: UNESCOTHES fairsharing: FAIRsharing.81dc5f

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR3/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+3
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR3/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 4040
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: —0
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR5/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC-BY-3.0-IGO+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a
  • Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recencyno activity evidence0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 11/48 · earned 11/80 → scaled 14 − 5 inactivity = 9/100 → 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 UTC9 E11——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 404)vocabularies.unesco.org26 Oct 2026, 03:27 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:27 UTC

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