What I make of it
Citation typing, bibliographic entities and funding/project data. Split on refinement.
SPAR Ontologies (CiTO, FaBiO, FRAPO)
Ontology / Vocabulary
Scholarly
openly published
Model Details
Steward
SPAR Ontologies project
Layer
Ontology / Vocabulary
Domain
Scholarly
Status
live
Access
Openly published
How I know this
Promoted from the public Linked Open Vocabularies registry, then confirmed against the steward's own site.
Confirmed
2026-08-11
Evidence: steward evidence 3/3. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.
Modernity Profile
Access
Open
Assessed
53.0% of the rubric
Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.
A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.