SSTIM is an open OWL and SKOS vocabulary for sensory stimulation. It mints identifiers for stimulation techniques, stimuli and their parameters, delivery media and body placements, exposure and safety boundaries, session records, and the evidence assessments attached to a claim. It exists so that auditory, visual, tactile and cross-modal stimulation protocols can be described and exchanged in one vocabulary instead of per-study prose, and it is used by researchers, tool builders and the W3C Sensory Stimulation Vocabulary Community Group.

Prefix

sstim

Keywords

aging audio-visual entrainment behavior binaural beats brain brainwave entrainment cognition digital health evidence tiers fair data isochronic tones mental health multisensory integration neuromodulation neuroscience ontology open science paced breathing pain psychology psychophysics public health science sensory perception of smell sensory perception of taste sensory stimulation sleep vibrotactile stimulation wellness

Version

0.17.0

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository Request Discussion

Publications

2026 SSTIM Workbench: Open Sensory Stimulation Platform and SSTIM Ontology

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Sensory Stimulation Ontology should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*$

Example Local Unique Identifier

SensoryStimulation   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Sensory Stimulation Ontology should match this regular expression:
^sstim:[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*$

Example CURIE

sstim:SensoryStimulation

Contact

Renato Fabbri   0000-0002-9699-629X   ttm

Contributors

submitter Renato Fabbri   0000-0002-9699-629X   ttm

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Has Parts (bfo:0000051 )

sstim.ecosystem sstim.exposure sstim.vocab

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

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 SensoryStimulation is used to demonstrate the providers available for Sensory Stimulation 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.