Ontology
vCard
Virtual Contact File
vCard is a specification developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the description of people and organisations
Source & access
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR1/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)1: Bioregistry+1
- 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, Turtle+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, Turtle+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR4/12
- Clear license (R1.1)none found0
- Release provenance (R1.2)a owl:Class; rdfs:isDefinedBy (version info in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality11/20
- Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (ROBOT ELK in SchemaScope CI)+10
- OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- ROBOT report: no errors23 errors0
- ROBOT report: warning density155 warnings / 1 classes = 155.000
- Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls0 critical, 2 important, 2 minor pitfall types (SchemaScope Python scan (OOPS! pitfall subset))+1
M Maintenance2/16
- Recency2025-05-07 → 17.6 months (≤ 2 years)+2
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption2/16
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies6 vocabularies (LOV)+2
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-2
- Time since last activity1.5 years → 4 × max(0, 1.5 − 1)-2
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
- ROBOT report errors23 errors against OBO conventions; not penalised (not an OBO-style ontology)0
FAIR subtotal 25/48 · earned 40/100 − 2 inactivity = 38/100 → 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.
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC | 38 E | 25 | a owl:Class; rdfs:isDefinedBy | — | 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”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 200) | w3.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | w3.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC |
| Artefact header (version info) | w3.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC |
| ROBOT reason/report in SchemaScope CI | — | 26 Oct 2026, 02:14 UTC |
| OOPS! pitfall scan | oops.linkeddata.es | 25 Oct 2026, 21:55 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot