Ontology

HOMBA

Harmonized Ontology of Mammalian Brain Anatomy

A BICAN ontology that harmonizes brain anatomy terms across mammalian brain atlases. Built with the Ontology Development Kit; early-stage.

brain regionscross-speciesharmonizationBICAN
E36

FAIR 23/48

Version v2026-04-28

Evaluated 25 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR2/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2)v2026-04-28 (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 Maintenance13/16
  • Recency2026-04-28 → 5.9 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)5 releases (GitHub releases)+5
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)0
  • Time since last activity0.5 years → 4 × max(0, 0.5 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 23/48 · earned 36/100 = 36/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

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History & changes 5 runs

25 Oct 2026: 5525 Oct 2026: 6025 Oct 2026: 3625 Oct 2026: 3625 Oct 2026: 29Score over time
  • Score: 36 → 29 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
  • Score: 60 → 36 (grade C → D) · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
  • Score: 55 → 60 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
  • Evaluated version: commit 82829a0 → v2026-04-28
RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC29 E16v2026-04-28—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC36 E23v2026-04-28—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC36 D23v2026-04-28—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC60 C40v2026-04-28—JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC55 C35commit 82829a0—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
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 82829a0, latest tag v2026-04-28)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, 19:09 UTC

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