Vocabulary
NeuroNames
A long-standing nomenclature of primate brain structures with synonyms across languages and atlases, served through BrainInfo.
Source & access
- homepage braininfo.rprc.washington.edu HTTP 200
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR3/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1007/s12021-011-9128-8+3
A Accessible FAIR3/12
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: Web, Spreadsheet0
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- 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 & qualityn/a
- Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance0/16
- Recencyno activity evidence0
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption4/16
- Documented adopting projects1 project+2
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 55 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
- No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 6/48 · earned 10/80 → scaled 13 − 5 inactivity = 8/100 → grade E
Community adoption 1
- BrainInfo
Primary nomenclature
Curated by NeuroSchema
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History & changes 6 runs
Score over time
- Score: 13 → 8 · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Score: 18 → 13 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
- Score: 17 → 18 · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
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) | braininfo.rprc.washington.edu | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/s12021-011-9128-8) | api.crossref.org | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- NeuroNames: an ontology for the BrainInfo portal to neuroscience on the web (2012) · doi:10.1007/s12021-011-9128-8 · 55 citations