Registry The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology

The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology is an ontology for all aspects of human behaviour change interventions and their evaluation.

Prefix: bcio
Keywords: ontology
Version: 2025-12-05
License: CC-BY-4.0
Links: Homepage OWL

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local identifiers in The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{6}$
Example Local Unique Identifier: 040000 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology should match this regular expression:
^bcio:\d{6}$
Example CURIE: bcio:040000

Contacts

Contact: Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez 0000-0001-7203-8399

Metaregistry The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`BCIO`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`BCIO`
OLS	`ols`	`bcio`

Providers

Suggest

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 040000 is used to demonstrate the providers available for The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology	`bcio`	https://w3id.org/BCI-ontology#040000
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/bcio:040000

Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Semantic Farm are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Code	Name	URL
`website`	None	http://humanbehaviourchange.org/ontology/BCIO_040000

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("bcio")
'2025-12-05'

This name annotation was originally annotated in EBI Ontology Lookup Service and is redistributed under the See https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/issues/340 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("bcio")
'The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("bcio")
'CC-BY-4.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("bcio")
'https://www.humanbehaviourchange.org/'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("bcio")
'http://humanbehaviourchange.org/ontology/bcio.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("bcio")
'Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("bcio")
'srodriguez142857@gmail.com'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("bcio")
'0000-0001-7203-8399'