Ontology · Legacy

VSAO

Vertebrate Skeletal Anatomy Ontology

Vertebrate Skeletal Anatomy Ontology: Vertebrate skeletal anatomy ontology. A ontology listed in Bioregistry, OBO Foundry, OLS (EMBL-EBI).

anatomybone elementcelllife sciencemolecular interactionoboontologyorgan
E9

FAIR 37/48

Version 2012-11-06

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)vsao2012-11-0631442025 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/vsao.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/vsao/2012-11-06/vsao.owl

Languages en

Imports from (6)
CARO CL GO IAO PATO RO

Also registered as
bioportal: VSAO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.p51kqa obofoundry: vsao ols: vsao wikidata.entity: Q114677916

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051070+3
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 4040
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 6: caro, cl, go, iao, pato, ro+4
R Reusable FAIR4/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2012-11-06 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality1/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • 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
  • Recency2012-11-06 → 167.6 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (OLS version IRI)0
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 45 → 1)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-30
  • Time since last activity14.0 years → 4 × max(0, 14.0 − 1) (capped)-20
  • Inactive statusmarked legacy-10
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 37/48 · earned 39/100 − 30 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 E372012-11-06314JSON

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)nescent.org26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)svn.code.sf.net26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051070)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC

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

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