{
  "id": "npo",
  "acronym": "NPO",
  "name": "Neuron Phenotype Ontology",
  "category": "neuro",
  "domains": [
    "life",
    "chemistry",
    "physical"
  ],
  "kind": "ontology",
  "description": "Defines neuron types by combinations of phenotypes (location, morphology, molecular markers, electrophysiology, projections). Part of the NIF Ontology.",
  "formats": [
    "OWL",
    "Turtle"
  ],
  "maintainer": "SciCrunch / FDI Lab",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
  "repository": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
  "download": "http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
  "bioportal": "NPO",
  "bioregistry": "npo",
  "publications": [
    {
      "title": "The Neuron Phenotype Ontology: A FAIR Approach to Proposing and Classifying Neuronal Types",
      "doi": "10.1007/s12021-022-09566-7",
      "year": 2022
    }
  ],
  "usedBy": [
    {
      "name": "SPARC",
      "url": "https://sparc.science/",
      "note": "Neuron populations in connectivity models"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "neuron types",
    "phenotypes"
  ],
  "url": "https://schemascope.org/o/npo/",
  "evaluation": {
    "links": {
      "homepage": {
        "url": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
        "code": 200,
        "state": "ok",
        "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.770Z"
      },
      "repository": {
        "url": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
        "code": 200,
        "state": "ok",
        "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.770Z"
      },
      "download": {
        "url": "http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
        "code": 200,
        "state": "ok",
        "resolvedUrl": "https://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
        "lastModified": "2026-05-19T07:38:54.000Z",
        "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:33.287Z"
      }
    },
    "github": {
      "slug": "SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
      "stars": 64,
      "forks": 17,
      "openIssues": 153,
      "pushedAt": "2026-07-24T22:04:16Z",
      "archived": false,
      "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "latestRelease": {
        "tag": "v3.1",
        "date": "2018-01-15T14:40:35Z",
        "url": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology/releases/tag/v3.1"
      },
      "source": "https://api.github.com/repos/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.841Z"
    },
    "ols": null,
    "obo": null,
    "bioportal": null,
    "citations": [
      {
        "doi": "10.1007/s12021-022-09566-7",
        "count": 8,
        "source": "https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1007%2Fs12021-022-09566-7",
        "fetchedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.551Z"
      }
    ],
    "git": {
      "commit": "e0b6941924a5dabcd62c5cab879e9b8c64571e4a",
      "ref": "master",
      "headTag": null,
      "latestTag": {
        "name": "20191210025914-4ca48f8",
        "commit": "4ca48f8d513c1622595c780e437cbef5fab3e061",
        "url": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology/releases/tag/20191210025914-4ca48f8"
      },
      "tagCount": 44,
      "tagDates": [
        "2023-01-17",
        "2023-01-23",
        "2023-04-12",
        "2023-04-29",
        "2023-05-05",
        "2023-07-28",
        "2023-07-31",
        "2023-08-04",
        "2024-01-30",
        "2024-03-05",
        "2024-03-26",
        "2024-08-02",
        "2024-08-27",
        "2024-08-28",
        "2024-08-29",
        "2024-09-21",
        "2025-05-02",
        "2025-09-14",
        "2026-01-10",
        "2026-01-16",
        "2026-01-30",
        "2026-02-11",
        "2026-06-23"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology/tree/e0b6941924a5dabcd62c5cab879e9b8c64571e4a",
      "source": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack",
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.347Z"
    },
    "tib": null,
    "dashboard": null,
    "quality": {
      "reasoner": "ELK",
      "robotVersion": "ROBOT version 1.9.7",
      "consistent": true,
      "unsatisfiable": 0,
      "owl2dl": false,
      "robot": {
        "ERROR": 74,
        "WARN": 2018,
        "INFO": 0
      },
      "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T21:43:16.825Z",
      "sha256": "e04dc559abae35fe990c9d871b9886316e378c795e942369b425f0f188dbda98",
      "artefact": "http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
      "source": "data/quality/npo.json"
    },
    "oops": {
      "engine": "OOPS! (local Docker)",
      "critical": 0,
      "important": 4,
      "minor": 8,
      "pitfalls": [
        {
          "code": "P02",
          "name": "Creating synonyms as classes",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 3
        },
        {
          "code": "P04",
          "name": "Creating unconnected ontology elements",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 2
        },
        {
          "code": "P08-A",
          "name": "Missing annotations - Label & Comment",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 1850
        },
        {
          "code": "P11",
          "name": "Missing domain or range in properties",
          "importance": "important",
          "affected": 71
        },
        {
          "code": "P13-N",
          "name": "Inverse relationships not explicitly declared - No Suggestion",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 56
        },
        {
          "code": "P13-S",
          "name": "Inverse relationships not explicitly declared - Symmetric or Transitive?",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 4
        },
        {
          "code": "P13-Y",
          "name": "Inverse relationships not explicitly declared - With Suggestion",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 3
        },
        {
          "code": "P20",
          "name": "Misusing ontology annotations",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 3
        },
        {
          "code": "P22",
          "name": "Using different naming conventions in the ontology",
          "importance": "minor",
          "affected": 1
        },
        {
          "code": "P24",
          "name": "Using recursive definitions",
          "importance": "important",
          "affected": 2
        },
        {
          "code": "P30",
          "name": "Equivalent classes not explicitly declared",
          "importance": "important",
          "affected": 1
        },
        {
          "code": "P41",
          "name": "No license declared",
          "importance": "important",
          "affected": 1
        }
      ],
      "attempts": [],
      "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T21:44:31.514Z",
      "sha256": "e04dc559abae35fe990c9d871b9886316e378c795e942369b425f0f188dbda98",
      "source": "data/quality/npo.json"
    },
    "releases": {
      "dates": [
        "2016-07-08",
        "2017-09-10",
        "2017-09-12",
        "2017-10-16",
        "2018-01-15"
      ],
      "lastYear": 0,
      "from": "GitHub releases"
    },
    "bioregistry": {
      "prefix": "npo",
      "name": "NanoParticle Ontology",
      "mappings": {
        "aberowl": "NPO",
        "bioportal": "NPO",
        "fairsharing": "FAIRsharing.vy0p71"
      },
      "dependsOn": [],
      "appearsIn": [],
      "license": null,
      "version": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
      "deprecated": false,
      "page": "https://bioregistry.io/npo",
      "source": "https://bioregistry.io/api/registry/npo",
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.510Z"
    },
    "artifact": {
      "source": "https://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
      "isRdf": true,
      "versionInfo": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
      "etag": "\"5f85db7f81a60fe21c88e97850990ce8\"",
      "contentType": "application/rdf+xml",
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:33.573Z"
    },
    "score": 59,
    "gross": 59,
    "earned": 59,
    "possible": 100,
    "qualityApplies": true,
    "penalty": {
      "score": 0,
      "reason": "no penalties (active, consistent)",
      "steps": [
        {
          "label": "Time since last activity",
          "pts": 0,
          "detail": "0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)"
        },
        {
          "label": "Inactive status",
          "pts": 0,
          "detail": "not archived, legacy or inactive"
        },
        {
          "label": "Consistency",
          "pts": 0,
          "detail": "consistent, no unsatisfiable classes"
        },
        {
          "label": "ROBOT report errors",
          "pts": 0,
          "detail": "74 errors against OBO conventions; not penalised (not an OBO-style ontology)"
        }
      ]
    },
    "consistent": true,
    "dashboardComparison": null,
    "grade": "C",
    "fair": 36,
    "breakdown": {
      "findable": {
        "score": 7,
        "max": 12,
        "steps": [
          {
            "label": "Persistent identifier (F1)",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 4,
            "detail": "no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact"
          },
          {
            "label": "Indexed in services (F4)",
            "pts": 4,
            "max": 5,
            "detail": "3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing"
          },
          {
            "label": "Citable reference (F2)",
            "pts": 3,
            "max": 3,
            "detail": "doi:10.1007/s12021-022-09566-7"
          }
        ],
        "notes": [
          "Persistent identifier (F1): no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact",
          "Indexed in services (F4): 3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing"
        ]
      },
      "accessible": {
        "score": 12,
        "max": 12,
        "steps": [
          {
            "label": "Homepage reachable",
            "pts": 3,
            "max": 3,
            "detail": "HTTP 200"
          },
          {
            "label": "Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)",
            "pts": 6,
            "max": 6,
            "detail": "download HTTP 200"
          },
          {
            "label": "Metadata persists in a registry (A2)",
            "pts": 3,
            "max": 3,
            "detail": "Bioregistry"
          }
        ],
        "notes": []
      },
      "interoperable": {
        "score": 8,
        "max": 12,
        "steps": [
          {
            "label": "Formal machine-readable format (I1)",
            "pts": 5,
            "max": 5,
            "detail": "OWL, Turtle"
          },
          {
            "label": "Semantic-web IRIs (I2)",
            "pts": 3,
            "max": 3,
            "detail": "OWL, Turtle"
          },
          {
            "label": "References other vocabularies (I3)",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 4,
            "detail": "no imported vocabularies found"
          }
        ],
        "notes": [
          "References other vocabularies (I3): no imported vocabularies found"
        ]
      },
      "reusable": {
        "score": 9,
        "max": 12,
        "steps": [
          {
            "label": "Clear license (R1.1)",
            "pts": 5,
            "max": 5,
            "detail": "CC-BY-4.0"
          },
          {
            "label": "Release provenance (R1.2)",
            "pts": 4,
            "max": 4,
            "detail": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd) (version info in the artefact)"
          },
          {
            "label": "Community standards (R1.3)",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 3,
            "detail": "no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)"
          }
        ],
        "notes": [
          "Community standards (R1.3): no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)"
        ]
      },
      "quality": {
        "score": 11,
        "max": 20,
        "steps": [
          {
            "label": "Logical consistency",
            "pts": 10,
            "max": 10,
            "detail": "consistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (ROBOT ELK, run by SchemaScope)"
          },
          {
            "label": "OWL 2 DL profile",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 2,
            "detail": "outside OWL 2 DL"
          },
          {
            "label": "Upper-ontology alignment",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 3,
            "detail": "no BFO/COB/DOLCE import found"
          },
          {
            "label": "Standard relations (RO)",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 1,
            "detail": "does not import the Relation Ontology"
          },
          {
            "label": "ROBOT report: no errors",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 2,
            "detail": "74 errors"
          },
          {
            "label": "ROBOT report: warning density",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 1,
            "detail": "2018 warnings / 1 classes = 2018.00"
          },
          {
            "label": "Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls",
            "pts": 1,
            "max": 1,
            "detail": "0 critical, 4 important, 8 minor pitfall types (OOPS! (local Docker))"
          }
        ],
        "notes": [
          "OWL 2 DL profile: outside OWL 2 DL",
          "Upper-ontology alignment: no BFO/COB/DOLCE import found",
          "Standard relations (RO): does not import the Relation Ontology",
          "ROBOT report: no errors: 74 errors",
          "ROBOT report: warning density: 2018 warnings / 1 classes = 2018.00"
        ]
      },
      "maintenance": {
        "score": 8,
        "max": 16,
        "steps": [
          {
            "label": "Recency",
            "pts": 8,
            "max": 10,
            "detail": "2026-07-24 → 3.1 months (≤ 6 months)"
          },
          {
            "label": "Release cadence (12 months)",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 6,
            "detail": "0 releases (GitHub releases)"
          }
        ],
        "notes": [
          "Recency: 2026-07-24 → 3.1 months (≤ 6 months)",
          "Release cadence (12 months): 0 releases (GitHub releases)"
        ]
      },
      "adoption": {
        "score": 4,
        "max": 16,
        "steps": [
          {
            "label": "Documented adopting projects",
            "pts": 2,
            "max": 7,
            "detail": "1 project"
          },
          {
            "label": "Reused by other ontologies",
            "pts": 0,
            "max": 4,
            "detail": "0"
          },
          {
            "label": "Community signal",
            "pts": 2,
            "max": 5,
            "detail": "max(stars 64 → 2, citations 8 → 0)"
          }
        ],
        "notes": [
          "Documented adopting projects: 1 project",
          "Reused by other ontologies: 0",
          "Community signal: max(stars 64 → 2, citations 8 → 0)"
        ]
      }
    },
    "lastActivity": "2026-07-24T22:04:16.000Z",
    "adopterCount": 1,
    "reuseCount": 0,
    "importCount": 0,
    "registries": [
      "BioPortal",
      "Bioregistry",
      "FAIRsharing"
    ],
    "evaluatedVersion": {
      "label": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
      "from": "version info in the artefact",
      "value": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
      "inArtefact": true,
      "all": [
        {
          "label": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
          "from": "version info in the artefact",
          "value": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
          "inArtefact": true
        },
        {
          "label": "v3.1",
          "from": "latest GitHub release",
          "value": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology/releases/tag/v3.1"
        },
        {
          "label": "20191210025914-4ca48f8 + commit e0b6941",
          "from": "latest release tag; master evaluated at commit",
          "value": "e0b6941924a5dabcd62c5cab879e9b8c64571e4a",
          "release": "20191210025914-4ca48f8"
        },
        {
          "label": "commit e0b6941",
          "from": "master at evaluation time",
          "value": "e0b6941924a5dabcd62c5cab879e9b8c64571e4a"
        },
        {
          "label": "file of 2026-05-19",
          "from": "Last-Modified of the download",
          "value": "2026-05-19T07:38:54.000Z"
        }
      ]
    },
    "evaluatedAt": "2026-10-27T21:58:33.578Z",
    "runId": "2026-10-27T21-58-30Z",
    "adopters": [
      {
        "name": "SPARC",
        "url": "https://sparc.science/",
        "note": "Neuron populations in connectivity models",
        "source": "curated"
      }
    ]
  },
  "history": [
    {
      "runId": "2026-10-26T02-37-38Z",
      "at": "2026-10-26T03:31:18.947Z",
      "score": 48,
      "grade": "D",
      "fair": 36,
      "version": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
      "terms": null,
      "stars": 1,
      "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
      "lastActivity": "2026-05-19T07:38:54.000Z",
      "adopters": 1,
      "links": {
        "homepage": "blocked",
        "repository": "ok",
        "download": "ok"
      },
      "archived": false,
      "rubric": "3.4",
      "crit": {
        "findable": 7,
        "accessible": 12,
        "interoperable": 8,
        "reusable": 9,
        "quality": 0,
        "maintenance": 8,
        "adoption": 4
      },
      "penalty": 0,
      "metrics": {
        "consistent": null,
        "unsatisfiable": null,
        "owl2dl": null,
        "robotErrors": null,
        "robotWarnings": null,
        "criticalPitfalls": null,
        "imports": 0,
        "reuse": 0
      },
      "snapshot": "https://schemascope.org/runs/2026-10-26T02-37-38Z.json"
    },
    {
      "runId": "2026-10-27T21-58-30Z",
      "at": "2026-10-27T21:58:35.897Z",
      "score": 59,
      "grade": "C",
      "fair": 36,
      "version": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)",
      "terms": null,
      "stars": 64,
      "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "lastActivity": "2026-07-24T22:04:16.000Z",
      "adopters": 1,
      "links": {
        "homepage": "ok",
        "repository": "ok",
        "download": "ok"
      },
      "archived": false,
      "rubric": "3.5",
      "crit": {
        "findable": 7,
        "accessible": 12,
        "interoperable": 8,
        "reusable": 9,
        "quality": 11,
        "maintenance": 8,
        "adoption": 4
      },
      "penalty": 0,
      "metrics": {
        "consistent": true,
        "unsatisfiable": 0,
        "owl2dl": false,
        "robotErrors": 74,
        "robotWarnings": 2018,
        "criticalPitfalls": 0,
        "imports": 0,
        "reuse": 0
      },
      "snapshot": "https://schemascope.org/runs/2026-10-27T21-58-30Z.json"
    }
  ],
  "changes": [
    {
      "at": "2026-10-27T21:58:35.897Z",
      "runId": "2026-10-27T21-58-30Z",
      "what": "Quality: 0 → 11 (+11)"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-27T21:58:35.897Z",
      "runId": "2026-10-27T21-58-30Z",
      "what": "Homepage link: blocked → ok"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-27T21:58:35.897Z",
      "runId": "2026-10-27T21-58-30Z",
      "what": "License: BSD-3-Clause → CC-BY-4.0"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-27T21:58:35.897Z",
      "runId": "2026-10-27T21-58-30Z",
      "what": "Score: 48 → 59 (grade D → C) · rubric v3.4 → v3.5"
    }
  ],
  "recordProvenance": {
    "source": "harvest",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-27T21:32:12Z",
    "registries": [
      {
        "registry": "Bioregistry",
        "key": "bioregistry",
        "id": "npo",
        "url": "https://bioregistry.io/api/registry/npo",
        "retrievedAt": "2026-10-25T21:49:00Z"
      },
      {
        "registry": "NeuroSchema",
        "key": "neuroschema",
        "id": "npo",
        "url": "https://neuroschema.org/o/npo/",
        "retrievedAt": "2026-10-27T21:32:12Z"
      }
    ],
    "fields": {
      "acronym": "NeuroSchema",
      "name": "NeuroSchema",
      "description": "NeuroSchema",
      "homepage": "NeuroSchema",
      "repository": "NeuroSchema",
      "download": "Bioregistry",
      "formats": "NeuroSchema",
      "bioportal": "Bioregistry",
      "publications": "NeuroSchema",
      "tags": "NeuroSchema",
      "kind": "NeuroSchema",
      "maintainer": "NeuroSchema",
      "usedBy": "NeuroSchema"
    }
  },
  "evaluationProvenance": {
    "@context": {
      "prov": "http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#",
      "schemascope": "https://schemascope.org/ns#"
    },
    "@id": "https://schemascope.org/o/npo/#evaluation",
    "@type": "prov:Entity",
    "prov:specializationOf": {
      "@id": "http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
      "schemascope:evaluatedVersion": "2011-12-08 (yyyy-mm-dd)"
    },
    "prov:wasGeneratedBy": {
      "@id": "https://schemascope.org/runs/2026-10-27T21-58-30Z",
      "@type": "prov:Activity",
      "prov:startedAtTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:30.575Z",
      "prov:endedAtTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:35.897Z",
      "prov:wasAssociatedWith": {
        "@id": "https://schemascope.org/ns#evaluator",
        "@type": "prov:SoftwareAgent",
        "schemascope:version": "2.0.0"
      },
      "prov:used": [
        {
          "@id": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.770Z"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.770Z"
        },
        {
          "@id": "http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:33.287Z"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/NPO/1/npo.owl",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:33.573Z"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://github.com/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.347Z"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://api.github.com/repos/SciCrunch/NIF-Ontology",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.841Z"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://bioregistry.io/api/registry/npo",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.510Z"
        },
        {
          "@id": "https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1007%2Fs12021-022-09566-7",
          "prov:atTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:32.551Z"
        }
      ]
    },
    "prov:generatedAtTime": "2026-10-27T21:58:33.578Z",
    "prov:wasRevisionOf": [
      {
        "@id": "https://schemascope.org/runs/2026-10-26T02-37-38Z.json#npo"
      }
    ]
  }
}