Schema

BICAN metadata

BICAN Metadata Schemas

Metadata schemas and curation documentation for BICAN data, each reviewed and standardized by the BICAN Metadata and Ontologies Integration Working Group (MOWG).

metadatacurationBICAN
E30

FAIR 11/48

Version v2026.04.01

Evaluated 25 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR0/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)repository HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: Schema files0
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR2/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2)v2026.04.01 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a
  • Not applicableschema without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-05-21 → 5.2 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 5 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 11/48 · earned 24/80 → scaled 30 = 30/100 → grade E

Community adoption 1

  • BICAN

    Consortium metadata curation

    Curated by NeuroSchema

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History & changes 5 runs

25 Oct 2026: 4025 Oct 2026: 4525 Oct 2026: 2825 Oct 2026: 3025 Oct 2026: 24Score over time
  • Score: 30 → 24 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
  • Score: 28 → 30 (grade D → E)
  • Score: 45 → 28 · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
  • Score: 40 → 45 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
  • Evaluated version: commit e76223d → v2026.04.01
RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC24 E8v2026.04.01—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC30 E11v2026.04.01—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC28 D11v2026.04.01—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC45 D20v2026.04.01—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC40 D15commit e76223d—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”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Git refs (commit e76223d, latest tag v2026.04.01)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC

Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · entry.json · run snapshot