Ontology
BICANO
BICAN Application Ontology
An application ontology covering research, research subjects and research results in BICAN, linking experimental knowledge to how data is distributed. It builds on earlier BICCN and Brain Data Standards work.
Source & access
- homepage github.com HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download purl.brain-bican.org HTTP 200
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR0/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)purl.brain-bican.org PURL does not resolve to the artefact (redirects to a web page)0
- Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
- Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR6/12
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download resolves to a web page, not the file; repository reachable+3
- 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 FAIR7/12
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)v2023-10-04 (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
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- 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 Maintenance2/16
- Recency2025-05-30 → 16.9 months (≤ 2 years)+2
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption2/16
- Documented adopting projects1 project+2
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-2
- Time since last activity1.4 years → 4 × max(0, 1.4 − 1)-2
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 21/48 · earned 25/100 − 2 inactivity = 23/100 → grade E
Community adoption 1
- BICAN
Application ontology for consortium data
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History & changes 1 run
History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC | 23 E | 21 | v2023-10-04 | — | 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 | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | purl.brain-bican.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Artefact header | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Git refs (commit d175141, latest tag v2023-10-04) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot