Ontology · Legacy

FMA

Foundational Model of Anatomy

The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) is a biomedical informatics ontology. It is concerned with the representation of classes or types and relationships necessary for the symbolic representation of the phenotypic structure of the human body. Specifically, the FMA is a domain ontology that represents a coherent body of explicit declarative knowledge about human anatomy.

anatomybiomedical sciencehumanneuroimaging measurementoboontologyontology/terminology/nomenclatureorganism
D42

FAIR 41/48

Version 5.1.0

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

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Source & access

Homepagesi.washington.edu Repositorygithub.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)fma5.1.0104,721216225 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.org/sig/ont/fma.owl
Version IRI http://purl.org/sig/ont/fma_5.1.0.owl

Languages en

Also registered as
aberowl: FMA bioportal: FMA fairsharing: FAIRsharing.x56jsy obofoundry: fma ols: fma ontobee: FMA wikidata.entity: Q1406710

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2016.04.003+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 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 FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)5.1.0 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • 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 Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-05-23 → 5.1 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 2 → 0, citations 23 → 1)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-10
  • Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusmarked legacy-10
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 41/48 · earned 52/100 − 10 inactivity = 42/100 → grade D

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 UTC42 D415.1.0104,721JSON

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)si.washington.edu26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.org26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)sig.biostr.washington.edu26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Git refs (commit c6f7080, latest tag 5.1.0)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2016.04.003)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.websem.2007.12.001)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC

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

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