Ontology

VS

SemWeb Vocab Status ontology

This vocabulary was created in the FOAF project, based on experience with FOAF, Dublin Core and other early RDF vocabularies. Deployment experience shows that changing namespace URIs is expensive and unrewarding, so this vocabulary provides terms to support in-place evolution of structured data vocabularies. By indicating status at the level of terms rather than vocabularies, dictionary-style, fine grained improvements become easier. Different organizations and parties can agree or disagree on the status of a vocabulary term;

metadataontologysemantic web
E5

FAIR 21/48

Version file of 2011-12-12

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagew3.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL

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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR0/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • 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 Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2011-12-12 → 178.4 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies65 vocabularies (LOV)+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-20
  • Time since last activity14.9 years → 4 × max(0, 14.9 − 1) (capped)-20
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 21/48 · earned 25/100 − 20 inactivity = 5/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

Know a project that uses VS? Suggest it.

History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC5 E21file of 2011-12-12—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)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
Artefact headerw3.org26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC

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