Managed Service Authoring Platform Service

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Summary

The Service provides hosting, management and technical support of the Managed Service Authoring Platform (including the terminology server).

Description

This service enables Managed Service Members to effectively manage and extend SNOMED CT within their national context. It provides comprehensive capabilities for authoring, translating, and reviewing SNOMED CT content, including the addition, amendment, and retirement of concepts, descriptions, and relationships. The service facilitates collaborative teamwork, supports the classification process for generating inferred views, and manages the upgrade to new International Editions, including conflict resolution and content reconsolidation. It also ensures the release of extensions and editions in RF2 format with robust multi-lingual and multi-context support, including the generation of relevant language reference sets, and offers the ability to batch import descriptions for efficient data management.

Detailed Scope

Within Scope
Service Element	Notes/Restrictions
Ability to add, modify, reactivate or inactivate concepts in a national extension	There is no ability to edit concepts in the International module
Ability to add, modify, reactivate or inactivate descriptions in English and extension language reference sets in a national extension.	There is no ability to edit descriptions in the International module
Support of and ability to add, modify, reactivate or inactivate descriptions in Context-Specific Language Reference Sets	Limited to a Maximum of ten (10) context specific language reference sets.
Ability to add, modify or inactivate axioms and GCIs to concepts within the extension module(s)	There is no ability to edit relationships in the International module
Ability to classify the stated view of a national extension to create an inferred view as part of a national Release Package
Ability for a team to collaboratively author, review and edit content within a national extension
The upgrade of the Member’s national extension to a new version of the International Edition of SNOMED CT, including support for the management of any potential content conflicts including the reconciliation of previously promoted content whilst ‘upgrading’.	This functionality is only provided in the User Interface for a user that has the “Release Lead” role. Release Lead Role is limited to two (2) users
Support for releasing the national extension or edition in RF2 format up to twice per calendar year as standard	An additional frequent release service is available up to twelve times per year (Extra Costs Apply)
Ability to add users with specific Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to restrict user permissions and control access to authoring projects	Limited up to twenty (20) Authors directly employed by the NRC Limited up to ten (10) External (Collaborative) Authors supporting the NRC NOTE: Support and training of External Authors is the responsibility of the NRC and are not included in the scope of this agreement.
Ability for users to perform the following batch authoring changes in the extension module(s) via the Authoring UI Add new descriptions Modify case significance, and acceptability of existing descriptions Inactivate descriptions Add new primitive concepts	Ability to request an import of specifically agreed RF2 files limited to one update per monthly release cycle or two per standard semi-annual release cycle All imports need to be quality assured and validated by the NRC before they are imported, any issues arising from incorrect imports will be liable to be charged against the Members annual support hours quota.
Access to internal file store for RF2 versions of a daily release build.	The Daily Build files are made available on a reasonable endeavours basis and should not relied on or used in production systems Direct access is only provided on request. Files are also available for download directly from the User Interface
Provision to run reports in the Reporting Platform against national extension content with the aim of improving quality and providing data for statistical and analytical uses.	The data in the reporting platform is to be used for information purposes only and should be used with caution.
Ability to automatically submit a published national extension concept for promotion to the International Edition via the Content Request Service directly through the Authoring Platform User Interface.	This feature is useful for small numbers of requests, large bulk requests are better provided using the Content Request Service directly.
Ability to request new functionality, including reports is made available via the Managed Service Support Portal	Request should be supported by at least TWO other Managed Service Member countries or the International content team.

Out of Scope
Service Element	Notes
External tooling integration including use of API’s for Read/Write/Delete	SNOMED International does not provide support for third-party tools or systems that interface or integrate with Managed Service tooling, unless explicitly agreed in writing. If this occurs, a fee will be estimated. Any issues arising from the use, integration, or marketing of third-party software are the responsibility of the Member or the third party. SNOMED International is not liable for any failures, data loss, or misrepresentations caused by external tools using the Managed Service infrastructure.
Management of content related or owned outside of the Member National Release Centre. i.e. Private or Commercial Organisation Extensions or modules
Ability to amend or author content within the SNOMED International module including adding national axioms to International concepts
Ability to amend or author content within another Member countries module
Ability for Members to have their own national version of the Machine-Readable Concept Model (MRCM).	Functionality will only be provided based on the SNOMED International version of the MRCM
Support and Training of External (Collaborative) Authors supporting the authoring of the National Extension	The responsibility for this is the responsibility of the NRC.
Automated concept generation/transformation using templates
Ability to add annotations to local extension content
Support for reports intended or designed for International Edition Use
Use of the Release Notes Management Module	Currently this is only available for use with the International Edition

Within Scope
Service Element	Notes/Restrictions
Ability to add, modify, reactivate or inactivate concepts in a national extension	There is no ability to edit concepts in the International module
Ability to add, modify, reactivate or inactivate descriptions in English and extension language reference sets in a national extension.	There is no ability to edit descriptions in the International module
Support of and ability to add, modify, reactivate or inactivate descriptions in Context-Specific Language Reference Sets	Limited to a Maximum of ten (10) context specific language reference sets.
Ability to add, modify or inactivate axioms and GCIs to concepts within the extension module(s)	There is no ability to edit relationships in the International module
Ability to classify the stated view of a national extension to create an inferred view as part of a national Release Package
Ability for a team to collaboratively author, review and edit content within a national extension
The upgrade of the Member’s national extension to a new version of the International Edition of SNOMED CT, including support for the management of any potential content conflicts including the reconciliation of previously promoted content whilst ‘upgrading’.	This functionality is only provided in the User Interface for a user that has the “Release Lead” role. Release Lead Role is limited to two (2) users
Support for releasing the national extension or edition in RF2 format up to twice per calendar year as standard	An additional frequent release service is available up to twelve times per year (Extra Costs Apply)
Ability to add users with specific Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to restrict user permissions and control access to authoring projects	Limited up to twenty (20) Authors directly employed by the NRC Limited up to ten (10) External (Collaborative) Authors supporting the NRC NOTE: Support and training of External Authors is the responsibility of the NRC and are not included in the scope of this agreement.
Ability for users to perform the following batch authoring changes in the extension module(s) via the Authoring UI Add new descriptions Modify case significance, and acceptability of existing descriptions Inactivate descriptions Add new primitive concepts	Ability to request an import of specifically agreed RF2 files limited to one update per monthly release cycle or two per standard semi-annual release cycle All imports need to be quality assured and validated by the NRC before they are imported, any issues arising from incorrect imports will be liable to be charged against the Members annual support hours quota.
Access to internal file store for RF2 versions of a daily release build.	The Daily Build files are made available on a reasonable endeavours basis and should not relied on or used in production systems Direct access is only provided on request. Files are also available for download directly from the User Interface
Provision to run reports in the Reporting Platform against national extension content with the aim of improving quality and providing data for statistical and analytical uses.	The data in the reporting platform is to be used for information purposes only and should be used with caution.
Ability to automatically submit a published national extension concept for promotion to the International Edition via the Content Request Service directly through the Authoring Platform User Interface.	This feature is useful for small numbers of requests, large bulk requests are better provided using the Content Request Service directly.
Ability to request new functionality, including reports is made available via the Managed Service Support Portal	Request should be supported by at least TWO other Managed Service Member countries or the International content team.

Out of Scope
Service Element	Notes
External tooling integration including use of API’s for Read/Write/Delete	SNOMED International does not provide support for third-party tools or systems that interface or integrate with Managed Service tooling, unless explicitly agreed in writing. If this occurs, a fee will be estimated. Any issues arising from the use, integration, or marketing of third-party software are the responsibility of the Member or the third party. SNOMED International is not liable for any failures, data loss, or misrepresentations caused by external tools using the Managed Service infrastructure.
Management of content related or owned outside of the Member National Release Centre. i.e. Private or Commercial Organisation Extensions or modules
Ability to amend or author content within the SNOMED International module including adding national axioms to International concepts
Ability to amend or author content within another Member countries module
Ability for Members to have their own national version of the Machine-Readable Concept Model (MRCM).	Functionality will only be provided based on the SNOMED International version of the MRCM
Support and Training of External (Collaborative) Authors supporting the authoring of the National Extension	The responsibility for this is the responsibility of the NRC.
Automated concept generation/transformation using templates
Ability to add annotations to local extension content
Support for reports intended or designed for International Edition Use
Use of the Release Notes Management Module	Currently this is only available for use with the International Edition