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The following data types are used in the release files :

Description SNOMED CT identifier Identifier integer integer integer release files ISO ISO

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Table 2. Data Types Used in Release Files

 

Data Type

SCTID (data type)

A

, between 6 and 18 digits long, as described in 5.2. SCTID Representation .

UUID (data type)

Universally Unique

, 128-bit unsigned

Integer (data type)

Integer

32-bit signed

Integer (data type) .

String (data type)

UTF-8 text of a specified length.

Boolean (data type)

Boolean (data type) value, represented as one of two possible

Integer (data type) values ('1' for true, '0' for false).

Time (data type)

For

, a time format down to day of the year is used, having an

8601 basic representation of YYYYMMDD .

For development interchange formats, an ASCII text field in the

8601 basic format YYYYMMDDThhmmss Z will be used. The time zone will always be UTC, as indicated by the trailing "Z". (e.g. 20080602T223000Z represents 10:30pm June 2 2008 UTC.)

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