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The main purpose of the Content Managers Advisory Group is to provide IHTSDO with advice and guidance on issues related to the provision of SNOMED CT content as part of the 2016 Work Plan, to advise on prioritisation issues and to support the increase in authoring capacity throughout the IHTSDO community of practicenational perspectives on identfied content topics and issues through provision of advice and feedback.  

Meetings

Teleconferences

Teleconferences will be held every month on the second Tuesday of the month, and alterations to timing of meetings will be notified in advance (within 2 working weeks)

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Group members are expected to provide a national perspective to deliberations regarding the priority of content developmentsdevelopment through

• Advice and feedback on current SNOMED CT content projects and topics 
• Identification of and support in the resolution of relevant SNOMED CT content focused issues that are of national and international significance.
• Provision of advice and support to enable an increase in
• regarding the scheduling of current content projects and the addition of new content topics
• provide advice on ways of creating authoring capacity throughout the IHTSDO and its members (distributed editing)
• Assistance to assist Head of Content and IHTSDO Authoring Team and Editorial Advisory Group in the prioritisation of content tracker items
  
• to provide a national perspective on content development issues as required
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Communication

• The Content Managers AG will enable two-way communication between the IHTSDO Authoring Team and its Members on areas relevant to SNOMED CT content development.
• The primary routes for communications will be the Content Managers AG Confluence Space and AG Meetings.
• Communications to the Content Managers AG will , by default, be publicly accessible on the AG Confluence Space.
• Information that is not for public view may also be shared on pages that are accessible to Content Managers AG members only. Requests for closed areas must be sent to cri@ihtsdo.org prior to posting materials.

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The key criteria for success of the Content Managers AG in 2016 will be related to the provision of prioritisation advice and feedback to the Head of Content Management Executive and the IHTSDO Authoring Team.

The key measures of success in this area will be:

• Development of criteria to support the prioritization of the issues on the IHTSDO Content Tracker. 
• Evidence of the timely provision of advice and feedback on content topics and issues that are presented to the Group for the purposes of seeking input. 
• Active contribution to the development of a process that supports the implementation of Distributed Editing. 
• An agreed Content Development map, published and updated six monthly
• A documented process for the implementation of distributed editing by the close of 2016 
• A close working relationship with the Editorial AG and the IHTSDO Authoring Team, to ensure that the decisions originating from the Content Managers AG are reflected in the Content Roadmap and are implemented by the team