Documentation of the Human Phenotype Internationalisation Effort

• How to submit a language profile for inclusion in the HPO international edition
• How to maintain a language profile that is already part of the international edition
• Overview of translations currently in the HPO international edition
• Contact

The Human Phenotype Ontology Internationalization Effort (HPOIE) was established to coordinate the translation efforts surrounding the Human Phenotype Ontology. This entails:

1. Fostering collaboration between different groups translating the same language.
2. Standardising the representation of the translation profiles, capturing rich metadata that can be used by downstream sources to separate, for example, professional, manual translations from automated ones.
3. Coordinating the release of language profiles in step with HPO releases.

It is our vision that eventually we can break down language barriers entirely and enable not only cross-border phenotyping (for example in national rare disease registries) but also cross-border ontology curation.

The HPO International edition is a version of the HPO that corresponds to the primary release, but includes all translated labels, definitions and synonyms as well. HPO International can be browsed in OLS:

The persistent URL (PURL) of the HPO International editions is

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp/hp-international.owl

All the released language profiles can be found on GitHub.