Ontology
BITO
BICAN Techniques Ontology
An ontology of experimental techniques and methods used across the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network, to help scientists describe how data were produced.
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 FAIR8/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR0/12
- Clear license (R1.1)none found0
- Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality0/20
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
- ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
- Scaled 0/16 → 20OOPS! pitfall scan unavailable for this run0
M Maintenance0/16
- Recency2024-06-04 → 28.7 months (older / unknown)0
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption0/16
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-6
- Time since last activity2.4 years → 4 × max(0, 2.4 − 1)-6
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 17/48 · earned 17/100 − 6 inactivity = 11/100 → grade E
Community adoption 0
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History & changes 5 runs
Score over time
- Score: 11 → 8 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
- Score: 28 → 11 · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Score: 34 → 28 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
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 | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 0d1ec3c) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · entry.json · run snapshot