Ontology
DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine ontology
DICOM® — Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — is the international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use. (from https://www.dicomstandard.org/about-home)
Source & access
- homepage dicomstandard.org HTTP 200
- download dicom.nema.org HTTP 200
Portals & registries
Also registered as
aberowl: DICOM bioportal: DICOM
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)2: BioPortal, Bioregistry+3
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1007/s10278-013-9577-8+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)none found0
- Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
- 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
- Recency2026-09-20 → 1.2 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 5 → 0)0
- Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 26/48 · earned 36/100 = 36/100 → grade E
Community adoption 0
No adopting projects documented yet.
Know a project that uses DICOM? Suggest it.
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 | 36 E | 26 | file of 2026-09-20 | — | 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) | dicomstandard.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | dicom.nema.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC |
| Artefact header | dicom.nema.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/s10278-013-9577-8) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- Multi-series DICOM: an extension of DICOM that stores a whole study in a single object (2013) · doi:10.1007/s10278-013-9577-8 · 5 citations
- DICOM demystified: a review of digital file formats and their use in radiological practice (2005) · doi:10.1016/j.crad.2005.07.003