Ontology
NIFSTD
NIF Standard Ontology
The Neuroscience Information Framework ontology: a broad, modular set of neuroscience terms spanning anatomy, cells, molecules, techniques and resources.
Source & access
- homepage github.com HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR4/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)1: BioPortal+1
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z+3
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, Turtle+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, Turtle+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR7/12
- Clear license (R1.1)CC-BY-4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)v3.1 (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 Maintenance8/16
- Recency2026-07-24 → 3.1 months (≤ 6 months)+8
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption4/16
- Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 64 → 2, citations 107 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
- Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 28/48 · earned 40/100 = 40/100 → grade D
Community adoption 2
- Neuroscience Information Framework
Search and resource annotation
Curated by NeuroSchema - SPARC
Via InterLex
Curated by NeuroSchema
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History & changes 6 runs
Score over time
- Score: 40 → 42 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
- Evaluated version: v3.1 → 20191210025914-4ca48f8 + commit e0b6941
- Score: 45 → 40
- Evaluated version: 20191210025914-4ca48f8 + commit e0b6941 → v3.1
- Score: 88 → 45 (grade A → D) · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Evaluated version: v3.1 → 20191210025914-4ca48f8 + commit e0b6941
- Score: 83 → 88 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
- Evaluated version: commit e0b6941 → v3.1
- Score: 91 → 83 · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
- Evaluated version: — → commit e0b6941
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC | 42 D | 25 | 20191210025914-4ca48f8 + commit e0b6941 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC | 40 D | 28 | v3.1 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC | 45 D | 28 | 20191210025914-4ca48f8 + commit e0b6941 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC | 88 A | 55 | v3.1 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC | 83 A | 50 | commit e0b6941 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC | 91 A | — | — | — | 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”.
| 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 e0b6941, latest tag 20191210025914-4ca48f8) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z) | 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
- The NIFSTD and BIRNLex Vocabularies: Building Comprehensive Ontologies for Neuroscience (2008) · doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z · 107 citations