The following is a list of standards that are designed for or applicable to veterinary use:
| System Name |
Sponsoring Organization |
Country or Region |
Details and Contacts |
Logo |
| Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) |
GBIF |
Global |
gbif.org
Biodiversity database of species and geographic occurrence
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| HL7 |
HL7 International |
Global |
hl7.org
Standard for healthcare data structures and data exchange. See also hl7.org/fhir.
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| Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
USGS / Smithsonian INstitution |
USA |
itis.gov
Taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi and microbes.
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| Logical Observations Identfiers Names and Codes (LOINC) |
Regenstrief Institute |
Global |
loinc.org
International standard for health observations, measurements and documents.
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| MONDO Disease Ontology |
Monarch Initiative |
USA |
mondo.monarchinitiative.org
Definitive mapping between multiple disease ontologies.
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| OHDSI |
OHDSI |
Global |
ohdsi.org
Collection of analytics tools for healthcare data that has been mapped to the Common Data Model.
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| Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) |
University of Sydney |
Australia |
omia.org
Catalog of inherited disorders, other (single-locus) traits, and associated genes and variants in 795 animal species.
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| Rx-NORM |
National Library of Medicine |
USA |
www.nlm.nih.gov/.../index.html
Classification of pharmaceutical ingredients, formulations and brands.
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| Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) |
SNOMED International |
Global* |
snomed.org
Comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology system.
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| Veterinary Abbreviated Injury Scale (V-AIS) |
US Army |
USA |
Veterinary.AIS@gmail.com
Anatomically based trauma scoring and coding system to classify and quantify the severity of injuries in animals.
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| Vertebrate Breed Ontology (VBO) |
Monarch Initiative
Syndey School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sydney
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Australia |
monarch-initiative.github.io/vertebrate-breed-ontology/
Single, computable resource for vertebrate breed names.
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* = Requires licensing
