TY - GEN
T1 - Creating a queer ontology
T2 - 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2019
AU - Kronk, Clair
AU - Tran, Giao Q.
AU - Wu, Danny T.Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
PY - 2019/8/21
Y1 - 2019/8/21
N2 - Cultural attitudes, linguistic variation, and historical pathology have led to a plethora of terms concerning gender, sex, and sexual orientation that have caused confusion and uneasiness among both lay people and relevant professionals. For members of the LGBTQIA+ community, these negative reactions are compounded by identities which have historically and contemporarily been mistreated by medical professionals. In an effort to provide a reliable resource for patients and clinicians, we have created the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation (GSSO) ontology, which currently includes over 4,000 entities from multiple disciplines. The GSSO is a manually curated resource utilizing related glossaries from biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, and gender studies. With links to over 20 other ontology resources such as SNOMED-CT and MedDRA, the GSSO aims for accessibility and interoperability with existing systems. It is also open-source and features an easy-to-use web interface (https://github.com/Superraptor/GSSO). Future work involves multiple language support efforts and empirical evaluation.
AB - Cultural attitudes, linguistic variation, and historical pathology have led to a plethora of terms concerning gender, sex, and sexual orientation that have caused confusion and uneasiness among both lay people and relevant professionals. For members of the LGBTQIA+ community, these negative reactions are compounded by identities which have historically and contemporarily been mistreated by medical professionals. In an effort to provide a reliable resource for patients and clinicians, we have created the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation (GSSO) ontology, which currently includes over 4,000 entities from multiple disciplines. The GSSO is a manually curated resource utilizing related glossaries from biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, and gender studies. With links to over 20 other ontology resources such as SNOMED-CT and MedDRA, the GSSO aims for accessibility and interoperability with existing systems. It is also open-source and features an easy-to-use web interface (https://github.com/Superraptor/GSSO). Future work involves multiple language support efforts and empirical evaluation.
KW - Gender Minorities
KW - Linguistic
KW - Sexual
KW - Social Determinants of Health
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85071424762
U2 - 10.3233/SHTI190213
DO - 10.3233/SHTI190213
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 31437915
AN - SCOPUS:85071424762
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 208
EP - 212
BT - MEDINFO 2019
A2 - Seroussi, Brigitte
A2 - Ohno-Machado, Lucila
A2 - Ohno-Machado, Lucila
A2 - Seroussi, Brigitte
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 25 August 2019 through 30 August 2019
ER -