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: 2026-03-23
License: CC-BY-4.0
Links: Homepage Repository OWL
Publications: https://bioregistry.io/doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21252.2

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

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries 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.

Provider Name	Provider Code	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 Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

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

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("bcio")
'2026-03-23'

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 repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("bcio")
'https://github.com/HumanBehaviourChangeProject/ontologies'

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'