TriMED - Medical Termbase

The multilingual medical terminilogical database for everyone.

Project

TriMED is a multilingual terminological database, which was conceived in order to tackle different problems related to the complexity of medical terminology in three languages: Italian, English and French. In particular, the resource can be accessed by:

  1. Patients, who can look for the equivalent of technical terms in a more familiar and comprehensible terminology;
  2. Translators, who can consult a structured terminological record providing a wide range of information in both source and target language;
  3. Physicians, who, in terms of interoperability, can consult other useful medical resources such as MeSH terms, Snomed CT etc.
The work on the compilation of the records has been running since 2018 and, at the present time, we can give the following number of completed records per language:

The resource was implemented by following the most recent ISO standards for the management of terminology and this fits with the FAIR data principles in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

The description of the TriMED Data Categories is provided in the TriMED Data Category Repository. Our terminological record contains 42 different data categories.

People

TriMED has been designed and developed by Federica Vezzani who is currently a PhD student at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Study of the University of Padua under the supervision of Prof. Geneviève Henrot and Prof. Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio.

TriMED has been implemented as a Shiny Web Application by Prof. Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio of the Information Management System Group of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua.


Collaborations

TriMED is currently taking part in the TERMINOLOGY WITHOUT BORDERS project of the Terminology Coordination Unit (TermCoord) which reflects and supports the goal of the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) to communicate with citizens in clear language.

TriMED is also taking part in the ExaMode: Extreme-scale Analytics via Multimodal Ontology Discovery & Enhancement project which is supported by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 framework.


Publications

Here you can find a list of selected publications related to TriMED.