Ontology

BCIO

The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology

The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology is an ontology for all aspects of human behaviour change interventions and their evaluation.

ontology
C56

FAIR 32/48

Version 2026-09-29

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagehumanbehaviourchange.org Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)bcio2026-09-292,615111023 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI http://humanbehaviourchange.org/ontology/bcio.owl
Version IRI http://humanbehaviourchange.org/ontology/bcio.owl/2026-09-29

Languages de en es fr la

Imports from (20)
ADDICTO BFO COB ENVO GAZ GO IAO MF MFOEM OBI OGMS OMO OMRSE OPMI PATO PDRO RO SCHEMAORG_HTTPS SEPIO UBERON

Reused by (6)
ADDICTO APOLLO_SV GMHO OMRSE ONS OOSTT

Also registered as
aberowl: BCIO bioportal: BCIO ols: bcio

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: OLS, BioPortal, Bioregistry+4
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)only the source repository is reachable (no direct download)+3
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 20: addicto, bfo, cob, envo, gaz, go, iao, mf…+4
R Reusable FAIR7/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-09-29 (OLS); not declared inside the artefact+2
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality4/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
  • ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
M Maintenance16/16
  • Recency2026-10-16 → 0.3 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)11 releases (GitHub releases)+6
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies6: addicto, apollo_sv, gmho, omrse, ons, oostt+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 45 → 2, citations 0 → 0)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 32/48 · earned 56/100 = 56/100 → grade C

Community adoption 0

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC56 C322026-09-292,615JSON

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)humanbehaviourchange.org26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 404)humanbehaviourchange.org26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Git refs (commit 84c5e07, latest tag v2026-09-29)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot