Data standard
NWB
Neurodata Without Borders Schema
A data standard and schema for neurophysiology: extracellular and intracellular electrophysiology, optical physiology, behavior and stimuli, extensible via neurodata extensions (NDX).
Source & access
- homepage nwb.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
Schemas & modules 3
- HDMF common schemaShared data types (tables, containers) that the NWB schema builds on
- HERDHDMF External Resources Data: links values in a file to ontology terms
- NDX CatalogCommunity registry of neurodata extensions
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.7554/eLife.78362+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)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)YAML schema+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)BSD-3-Clause+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)2.11.0 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- Not applicabledata-standard without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
- Recency2026-08-21 → 2.2 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)2 releases (GitHub releases)+3
- Documented adopting projects4 projects+4
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 67 → 2, citations 167 → 2)+2
- Time since last activity0.2 years → 4 × max(0, 0.2 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 21/48 · earned 40/80 → scaled 50 = 50/100 → grade D
Community adoption 4
- DANDI Archive
Primary data format
Curated by SchemaScope - Allen Brain Observatory
Data distribution
Curated by SchemaScope - SpikeInterface
Read/write support
Curated by SchemaScope - BIDS
Accepted data format for iEEG recordings (.nwb)
Curated by SchemaScope
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Tooling
- PyNWBPython API
- MatNWBMATLAB API
- NWB InspectorBest-practice checks, used by DANDI on upload
History & changes 2 runs
Metrics across runs
| 27 Oct 2026 rubric v3.5 | 26 Oct 2026 rubric v3.4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 50 | 50 |
| Findable | 3 | 3 |
| Accessible | 6 | 6 |
| Interoperable | 5 | 5 |
| Reusable | 7 | 7 |
| Quality | 0 | 0 |
| Maintenance | 13 | 13 |
| Adoption | 6 | 6 |
| 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.
- Documented adopters: 3 → 4
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) | nwb.org | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 3ada52e, latest tag 2.11.0) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.7554/eLife.78362) | api.crossref.org | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
Run 2026-10-27T21-58-30Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.5 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- The Neurodata Without Borders ecosystem for neurophysiological data science (2022) · doi:10.7554/eLife.78362 · 167 citations