4. Consultation Material (Scratch Notes)

4. Consultation Material (Scratch Notes)

 

Executive Summary

Briefing Note (Benefits and "Why" of this work.  Include checklist - drill down pages for details?)

  • Enhancements to DNF

  • List of new features / capabilities (enhanced semantic capacity)

  • What do I have to do when this change is introduced?

  • Roadmap / timeline

  • Feedback timeline and process - 3 months, page for response to feedback.   Option for Webinar to address feedback / answer questions - Member Forum in the first instance (2 weeks after briefing note has been issued).

Checklist:

  • Terminology producers or consumers?   Separate briefing note for each of these.   Note that producers will also care about impact on consumers.

  • Using RF2 directly vs via terminology services

  • Adding concepts / refset maintenance / translation (only adding descriptions and language refset entries)

  • Currently classifying stated relationship file

  • Working with expressions vs only pre-coordinated concepts.

  • Data analytics (Subsumption) using hierarchy & Structure subsumption ie using defining relationships.

Impacts (from Doc)

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the impact to SNOMED CT consumers?

  • Obtaining a SNOMED CT as an OWL ontology.

  • Will distributed format change?

    • Relationships file - this is the inferred file which is most often / recommended used

    • Phasing out of stated form (StatedRelationship file) replaced with RF2 Refset containing OWL axioms.

 

Suggested Material 

  • Executive Summary

  • Webinar Sessions - interactive Q&A

  • Include the “Why”

  • Different types of users - checklist for different usage / what is needed.

  • Ronald suggested capturing that information online

  • FAQ Page

  • Feedback via Google / JIRA form (ask Rory)

  • Capture and display of feedback and public response to each item.

Distribution

  • Snomed.org

  • Which confluence space? (issue with permissions if under MAG?)

  • MF, VF

  • Twitter / Linked in / Social Media

Child Pages

 

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