Ontology
Brick
Brick Ontology
Brick is an open-source effort to standardize semantic descriptions of the physical, logical and virtual assets in buildings and the relationships between them. Brick consists of an extensible dictionary of terms and concepts in and around buildings, a set of relationships for linking and composing concepts together, and a flexible data model permitting seamless integration of Brick with existing tools and databases.
Source & access
- homepage brickschema.org HTTP 404
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download brickschema.org HTTP 200
Portals & registries
| Source | ID | Version | Classes | Properties | Individuals | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TIB Terminology Service | brick | 1.3.0 | 1,450 | 162 | 2,566 | 5 Jul 2023 |
Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.e1c595 tib.ts: brick
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)3: TIB, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1145/3408308.3431125+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 4040
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, Turtle+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, Turtle+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)BSD-3-Clause+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)v1.4.4 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- 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
- Recency2026-10-17 → 0.3 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 408 → 4, citations 18 → 1)+4
- 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 31/48 · earned 45/100 = 45/100 → grade D
Community adoption 0
No adopting projects documented yet.
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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 | 45 D | 31 | v1.4.4 | — | 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 404) | brickschema.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | brickschema.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Artefact header | brickschema.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Git refs (commit ed436f0, latest tag nightly-2020-08-27) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| TIB Terminology Service metrics | service.tib.eu | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1145/3408308.3431125) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1145/3408308.3427627) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick (2020) · doi:10.1145/3408308.3431125 · 3 citations
- Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle (2020) · doi:10.1145/3408308.3427627 · 18 citations