HeTOP (Health Terminology/Ontology Portal)

HeTOP (Health Terminology/Ontology Portal)

Category:
Taxonomies

Net4Age Ontology Terms:
healthcare , medical science

Description:

HeTOP (Health Terminology/Ontology Portal) contains the main terminologies or ontologies of the Health domain. It hosts more than 2 million concepts that are available in several languages among more than 70 terminologies or ontologies.

Overview: 
Contains the main terminologies or ontologies of the Health domain. It hosts more than 3 million concepts that are available in several languages (among 55 languages) among 100 terminologies or ontologies.

Objectives: 
HeTOP is based on a multi-terminology meta-model to integrate all taxonomies into its data core. It is cross-lingual since T/O are often available in several languages. The web site is designed to help medical librarians, translators, students, teachers, researchers, taxonomies editors.

Initiatives: 
SOTA on Health Terminology
Shortcomings: 
Hard to claim that all are covered, not sure how aligned it is with medical terminology
Relevance: 
3
Relevance Description: 
Taxonomy for medical and health domain
Quality: 
4
Opinion: 
Good initiative specific to health
Overlap: 
No
Overlap Detail: 
Sources: 
https://www.hetop.eu/hetop/en/?q=
Keywords: 
terminology, ontology, portal, collection, eHealth, @HeTOP
Email: 
andrej.grguric@gmail.com