Vocabulary

WORMS

World Register of Marine Species

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. It includes synonyms for valid taxonomic names allowing a more complete interpretation of taxonomic literature. The content of WoRMS is administered by taxonomic experts.

biodiversityenvironmental sciencefairmarine environmenttaxonomic classificationtaxonomy

E18

FAIR 17/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagemarinespecies.org

homepage marinespecies.org HTTP 200

Portals & registries

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.7g1bzj wikidata.entity: Q604063

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR6/12

Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
Indexed in services (F4)2: Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+3
Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194599+3

A Accessible FAIR6/12

Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3

I Interoperable FAIR0/12

Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: —0
Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0

R Reusable FAIR5/12

Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+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 & qualityn/a

Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000

M Maintenance0/16

Recencyno activity evidence0
Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0

U Community adoption1/16

Documented adopting projects0 projects0
Reused by other ontologies00
Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 40 → 1)+1

P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5

No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 17/48 · earned 18/80 → scaled 23 − 5 inactivity = 18/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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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	18 E	17	—	—	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)	marinespecies.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:30 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse	bioregistry.io	26 Oct 2026, 03:30 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194599)	api.crossref.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:30 UTC

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

How to cite

A decade of the World Register of Marine Species - General insights and experiences from the Data Management Team: Where are we, what have we learned and how can we continue? (2018) · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194599 · 40 citations