Ontology
NIFSTD
NIF Standard Ontology
The Neuroscience Information Framework ontology: a broad, modular set of neuroscience terms spanning anatomy, cells, molecules, techniques and resources.
Source & access
- homepage github.com HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
Portals & registries
Also registered as
bioportal: NIFSTD fairsharing: FAIRsharing.vgw1m6
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)only the source repository is reachable (no direct download)+3
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, Turtle+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, Turtle+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)v3.1 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- 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
- Recency2026-07-24 → 3.1 months (≤ 6 months)+8
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
- Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 64 → 2, citations 107 → 2)+2
- Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 31/48 · earned 43/100 = 43/100 → grade D
Community adoption 2
- Neuroscience Information Framework
Search and resource annotation
Curated by SchemaScope - SPARC
Via InterLex
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History & changes 2 runs
Metrics across runs
| 27 Oct 2026 rubric v3.5 | 26 Oct 2026 rubric v3.4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 43 |
| Findable | 7 | 7 |
| Accessible | 9 | 9 |
| Interoperable | 8 | 8 |
| Reusable | 7 | 7 |
| Quality | 0 | 0 |
| Maintenance | 8 | 8 |
| Adoption | 4 | 4 |
| Penalty | 0 | 0 |
| Imported vocabularies | 0 | 0 |
| Reused by | 0 | 0 |
Newest run first. Highlighted cells changed since the run before; hover to see the earlier value. A rubric change alone can move points.
No changes detected between runs.
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) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Git refs (commit e0b6941, latest tag 20191210025914-4ca48f8) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC carried forward |
Run 2026-10-27T21-58-30Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.5 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- The NIFSTD and BIRNLex Vocabularies: Building Comprehensive Ontologies for Neuroscience (2008) · doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z · 107 citations