The Hearing Impairment Ontology (HIO) is a collaboratively developed resource by a group of experts in different aspects of hearing impairment (HI) to provide a common controlled HI terminology and concepts. The HIO will allow researchers and clinicians alike to readily access standardised HI-related knowledge in a single location and promote collaborations and HI information sharing, including epidemiological, socio-environmental, biomedical, genetic and phenotypic information. It is worth noting, this ontology provides an illustration of the adaptability of the Sickle Cell Disease Ontology framework for use in developing a disease-specific ontology.
The latest version of the ontology can always be found at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HIO
Editors of this ontology should use the edit version, src/ontology/hio-edit.owl
The HIO is released every two months with possible special releases when there are significant incidental changes. It is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License (CC:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) and further copyrighted to maintain the quality and integrity of the term vocabulary, meaning that any modification to the HIO can only be done by HIO developers and curators.
Please use this GitHub repository's Issue tracker to request new terms/classes or report errors or specific concerns related to the ontology.
This ontology repository is being created under the Genetic Medicine of African Populations (GeneMAP), a pan-African collaborative research model which currently includes three main projects: Hearing Impairment Genetic Studies in Africa (HI GENES Africa), Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Center (SADaCC) and Individual Findings in Human Genetic Research in Africa (IFGENERA), supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and Wellcome Trust.