Ontology

VANN

A vocabulary for annotating vocabulary descriptions

This document describes a vocabulary for annotating descriptions of vocabularies with examples and usage notes.

computer sciencemetadatamiscellaneousontology
D43

FAIR 28/48

Version commit 197b6e7

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
TIB Terminology Servicevann—323324 Sept 2024

Also registered as
tib.ts: vann

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR3/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)2: TIB, Bioregistry+3
  • 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, RDF+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, RDF+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR5/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC-BY-1.0+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 & 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 Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-09-28 → 0.9 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption5/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies493 vocabularies (LOV)+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 9 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 28/48 · earned 43/100 = 43/100 → grade D

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 UTC43 D28commit 197b6e7—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)vocab.org26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)vocab.org26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Artefact headervocab.org26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Git refs (commit 197b6e7)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 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