This is the main repository for the NIF Standard ontology (NIFSTD). NIFSTD is a neuroscience ontology that maintains an extensive set of terms and concepts important for the domains of neuroscience and biology.
If you are having trouble loading ttl/nif.ttl in protege please see docs/development setup.md#protege.
NIFSTD is undergoing significant changes. Please see the
issue tracker
for upcoming changes. For a full record of changes please see
the log or
run git log
for a quick overview.
Please see docs/ for documentation about how to develop NIFSTD using this repository.
Please see the GitHub wiki for documentation about the structure of the ontology and how to load and edit it.
Please fork and submit
pull requests on GitHub.
Please read the docs for development processes.
See the wiki for more documentation.
In short, load ttl/nif.ttl in your favourite ontology editor,
and before commit run ttlfmt
on any files that you have modified.
The contents of this repository are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The text of the license can also be found in the LICENSE file.