Ontology

VANDF

Veterans Administration National Drug File

The National Drug File (NDF) is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA). NDF is a centrally maintained electronic drug list used by the VHA hospitals and clinics. Facilities use the NDF to check drug interactions, to manage orders, and to send outpatient prescriptions to regional automated mail-out pharmacies. NDF includes information on clinical drugs, drug classes, ingredients and National Drug Code (NDC) Directory codes.

biomedical sciencedrugdrug interactionontologypharmacology
E36

FAIR 28/48

Version 2025_07_31

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagenlm.nih.gov DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

Also registered as
aberowl: VANDF bioportal: VANDF fairsharing: FAIRsharing.xn3pb3

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, 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 FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR4/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2025_07_31 (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 Maintenance8/16
  • Recency2026-05-19 → 5.3 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • 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)0
  • Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 28/48 · earned 36/100 = 36/100 → 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 UTC36 E282025_07_31—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)nlm.nih.gov26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)aber-owl.net26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Artefact header (version info)aber-owl.net26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC

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