Data standard
NWB
Neurodata Without Borders Schema
A data standard and schema for neurophysiology: extracellular and intracellular electrophysiology, optical physiology, behavior and stimuli, extensible via neurodata extensions (NDX).
Source & access
- homepage nwb.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com 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:10.7554/eLife.78362+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 FAIR5/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)YAML schema+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR7/12
- Clear license (R1.1)BSD-3-Clause+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)2.11.0 (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 & qualityn/a
- Not applicabledata-standard without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance13/16
- Recency2026-08-21 → 2.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)2 releases (GitHub releases)+3
U Community adoption6/16
- Documented adopting projects3 projects+4
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 67 → 2, citations 167 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
- Time since last activity0.2 years → 4 × max(0, 0.2 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 24/48 · earned 43/80 → scaled 54 = 54/100 → grade D
Community adoption 3
- DANDI Archive
Primary data format
Curated by NeuroSchema - Allen Brain Observatory
Data distribution
Curated by NeuroSchema - SpikeInterface
Read/write support
Curated by NeuroSchema
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History & changes 6 runs
Score over time
- Score: 54 → 46 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
- Score: 50 → 54
- Score: 81 → 50 (grade A → D) · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Score: 76 → 81 (grade B → A) · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
- Evaluated version: commit 3ada52e → 2.11.0
- Score: 89 → 76 (grade A → B) · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
- Evaluated version: — → commit 3ada52e
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) | nwb.org | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 3ada52e, latest tag 2.11.0) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.7554/eLife.78362) | 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 Neurodata Without Borders ecosystem for neurophysiological data science (2022) · doi:10.7554/eLife.78362 · 167 citations