Ontology

PAIN

The Pain Ontology

An ontology that formalizes IASP's definition of pain as both an unpleasant physical and emotional experience, and it provides terms and axioms to represent the multidimensional aspects of pain, such as temporality, quality, extent, biological mechanism, and anatomical location.

biomedical sciencediffusion tensor imagingfunctional magnetic resonance imagingimaginglife sciencemagnetic resonance imagingneurobiologyobo
B79

FAIR 47/48

Version 2026-10-15

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)pain2026-10-15624174925 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardpain2026-08-13152——16 Sept 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pain.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pain/releases/2026-10-15/pain.owl

Languages en

Imports from (15)
BFO CL COB EMRO GO IAO IDO NCIT OBI OGMS OHD OMO PATO RO UBERON

Reused by (1)
OHD

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
6 errors · 1 warnings · 50 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
1,039 · 100% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: PAIN bioportal: PAIN fairsharing: FAIRsharing.9fmyc7 obofoundry: pain ols: pain ontobee: PAIN

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:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.018+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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 15: bfo, cl, cob, emro, go, iao, ido, ncit…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-10-15 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 8/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality17/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors6 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density1 warnings / 152 classes = 0.01+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 6 errors0
M Maintenance16/16
  • Recency2026-10-15 → 0.3 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)12 releases (GitHub releases)+6
U Community adoption2/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies1: ohd+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 3 → 0, citations 28 → 1)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-3
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors6 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 82/100 − 3 inactivity = 79/100 → grade B

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.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC79 B472026-10-15624JSON

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, 03:13 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
Git refs (commit 5499f6a, latest tag v2026-10-15)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 16 Sept 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.018)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC

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

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