Ontology

HBA

Human Brain Atlas Ontology

Adult human brain region hierarchy from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, packaged as an OWL ontology.

AllenBICANbrain regionshuman
E24

FAIR 23/48

Version v2025-02-10

Evaluated 25 Oct 2026

How scores work

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.brain-bican.org+4
  • 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)download 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, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR2/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2)v2025-02-10 (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 & 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 Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-02-10 → 20.4 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption2/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 1 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-3
  • Time since last activity1.7 years → 4 × max(0, 1.7 − 1)-3
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 23/48 · earned 27/100 − 3 inactivity = 24/100 → grade E

Community adoption 1

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History & changes 6 runs

25 Oct 2026: 4825 Oct 2026: 5025 Oct 2026: 5225 Oct 2026: 2425 Oct 2026: 2425 Oct 2026: 17Score over time
  • Score: 24 → 17 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
  • Evaluated version: v2025-02-10 → v2025-02-10 + commit 3ff2721
  • Evaluated version: v2025-02-10 + commit 3ff2721 → v2025-02-10
  • Score: 52 → 24 (grade C → D) · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
  • Evaluated version: v2025-02-10 → v2025-02-10 + commit 3ff2721
  • Score: 50 → 52 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
  • Evaluated version: commit 3ff2721 → v2025-02-10
  • Download link: — → ok
  • Score: 48 → 50 (grade D → C) · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
  • Evaluated version: — → commit 3ff2721
RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC17 E16v2025-02-10 + commit 3ff2721—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC24 E23v2025-02-10—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC24 D23v2025-02-10 + commit 3ff2721—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC52 C40v2025-02-10—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC50 C35commit 3ff2721—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC48 D———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)human.brain-map.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.brain-bican.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Artefact headergithub.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Git refs (commit 3ff2721, latest tag v2025-02-10)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
ROBOT reason/report in NeuroSchema CI—25 Oct 2026, 19:06 UTC

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