Association Relationship file naming conventions

Association Relationship file naming conventions

Once the decision has been ratified regarding whether or not to create 2x new files for the Association Relationships, we will need to confirm naming conventions for the new files.

The proposal would be to follow previous conventions, and therefore be something like this:

sct2_AssociationRelationship_Snapshot_INT_[date].txt
sct2_AssociationRelationshipConcreteValues_Snapshot_INT_[date].txt

However, these do make for long names, so any alternatives are welcome!

Also, are there any objections to hosting them in the standard Terminology folder (with the package structure)?

Finally, just to check that we want to standardise these files (even if they remain empty) across ALL SNOMED International products, rather than just retaining them in the International Edition? The assumption is that we would want to follow similar precedents (for OWL, Annotations files, etc) and replicate them across all products, but we wanted to make sure there were no contradictions to this before going ahead?

Thanks very much!

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