Ontology

BSPO

Biological Spatial Ontology

An ontology for respresenting spatial concepts, anatomical axes, gradients, regions, planes, sides and surfaces. These concepts can be used at multiple biological scales and in a diversity of taxa, including plants, animals and fungi. The BSPO is used to provide a source of anatomical location descriptors for logically defining anatomical entity classes in anatomy ontologies.

anatomyfunctional domainlife scienceoboontologyphenomicsphenotypephysiology
B71

FAIR 47/48

Version 2023-05-27

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)bspo2023-05-271692361825 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardbspo2023-05-27146——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bspo.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bspo/releases/2023-05-27/bspo.owl

Languages en

Imports from (7)
BFO CARO GO IAO OMO PATO RO

Reused by (35)
AISM COLAO CTENO FOVT HP PLANA UBERON ZP CL COVOC ECAO ECOCORE FLOPO GO HCAO HSO LEPAO MICRO MONDO MP NBO OAE OBA OHPI OPMI OVAE PATO PCL PHIPO PLANP PREFER RBO UPHENO VALUESETS XPO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
4 errors · 50 warnings · 29 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
2,048 · 17.46% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: BSPO biodivportal: BSPO bioportal: BSPO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.newa3z obofoundry: bspo ols: bspo ontobee: BSPO wikidata.entity: Q81661546

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-34+3
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 7: bfo, caro, go, iao, omo, pato, ro+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-05-27 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 7/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality14/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors4 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density50 warnings / 146 classes = 0.340
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 4 errors0
M Maintenance8/16
  • Recency2026-07-16 → 3.3 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption5/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies35: aism, colao, cteno, fovt, hp, plana…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 14 → 1, citations 34 → 1)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-3
  • Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors4 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 74/100 − 3 inactivity = 71/100 → grade B

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 UTC71 B472023-05-27169JSON

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)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
Git refs (commit 21f4b75, latest tag v2023-05-30)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-34)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC

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

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