This section identifies terminology services required to support the authoring and review of SNOMED CT content. This includes the creation and editing of concepts, descriptions, relationships, and reference sets. The terminology services described in this section are primarily used by terminology authors and reviewers working in terminology development environments. However, some of these services may also be used by applications that need to validate terminology content or provide terminology editing capabilities.
The table below shows a summary of the terminology services required to support terminology authoring and review processes.
Enable the selection of SNOMED CT edition and version to be used. REQUIRED
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Get concepts, descriptions, and relationships for review and editing. REQUIRED
N/A
Get terms for concepts to display in terminology editing interfaces. REQUIRED
N/A
Get concept definitions for review and validation. REQUIRED
N/A
Test concept subsumption relationships during authoring and review. REQUIRED
N/A
Test reference set membership during authoring and review. REQUIRED
N/A
Validate expression constraints during authoring and review. REQUIRED
N/A
Find concepts for use in terminology authoring and review. REQUIRED
N/A
Get concept model rules to ensure proper authoring. REQUIRED
N/A
Validate concept definitions and expressions during authoring. REQUIRED
N/A
Test expression subsumption during authoring and review. OPTIONAL
N/A
Get reference set data for review and editing. OPTIONAL
N/A
Get mapping data for review and editing. OPTIONAL
N/A
Note: The terminology services described in this section provide the foundation for terminology authoring and review. However, actual terminology editing applications typically require additional functionality beyond these services, such as:
User interface components for editing terminology content
Workflow management for authoring and review processes
Version control and change tracking
Integration with terminology classification engines
Export and import capabilities for terminology content
These additional capabilities are outside the scope of this guide and are typically provided by specialized terminology authoring tools.