Support Terminology Authoring and Review

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.

Services Required to Support Terminology Authoring and Review

The table below shows a summary of the terminology services required to support terminology authoring and review processes.

Practical Requirement	Required Services	Dependencies
Enable the selection of SNOMED CT edition and version to be used. REQUIRED	Select Edition and Version	N/A
Get concepts, descriptions, and relationships for review and editing. REQUIRED	Get a Concept, Description or Relationship	N/A
Get terms for concepts to display in terminology editing interfaces. REQUIRED	Get Terms for a Concept	N/A
Get concept definitions for review and validation. REQUIRED	Get Definition of a Concept	N/A
Test concept subsumption relationships during authoring and review. REQUIRED	Get and Test Concept Subtypes and Supertypes	N/A
Test reference set membership during authoring and review. REQUIRED	Get and Test Reference Set Membership	N/A
Validate expression constraints during authoring and review. REQUIRED	Validate and Apply Expression Constraints	N/A
Find concepts for use in terminology authoring and review. REQUIRED	Find Concepts	N/A
Get concept model rules to ensure proper authoring. REQUIRED	Get Concept Model Rules	N/A
Validate concept definitions and expressions during authoring. REQUIRED	Validate Concept Definitions and Expressions	N/A
Test expression subsumption during authoring and review. OPTIONAL	Test Expression Subsumption	N/A
Get reference set data for review and editing. OPTIONAL	Get Data from a Reference Set	N/A
Get mapping data for review and editing. OPTIONAL	Get Mapping Data	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.