Ontology

nif.std

NIF Standard Ontology

NIFSTD is a base namespace (like obo:) which houses many other prefixes. Sometimes NIFSTD prefixed identifiers appear undifferentiated, but usually if it shows up it means that another prefix definition is missing when serializing.

braindiseaseneurosciencenifontology
D43

FAIR 31/48

Version v3.1

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

Also registered as
bioportal: NIFSTD fairsharing: FAIRsharing.vgw1m6

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR7/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z+3
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)only the source repository is reachable (no direct download)+3
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, Turtle+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, Turtle+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)v3.1 (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 Maintenance8/16
  • Recency2026-07-24 → 3.1 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 64 → 2, citations 107 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 31/48 · earned 43/100 = 43/100 → grade D

Community adoption 2

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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 UTC43 D31v3.1—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”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC
Git refs (commit e0b6941, latest tag 20191210025914-4ca48f8)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/s12021-008-9032-z)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:08 UTC

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

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