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Status

This document was drafted prior to the Editorial Advisory Group conference call in December and will be circulated to the members for review and approval.

Overall objectives

The main purpose of the SNOMED CT Editorial Advisory Group is to provide IHTSDO with advice and guidance on issues related to the editorial policy underpinning development and maintenance of SNOMED CT content.

Meetings

Teleconferences

Teleconferences will be held every month on the fourth Monday of the month depending on current level of required group activity.

Face-to-Face meetings

The Editorial AG plans to meet at both IHTSDO Business meetings during the year.

April 2016 - London, UK

  • Business meeting scheduled April 17th-20th, 2016
  • Editorial AG plans to meet for one full day during IHTSDO business meeting
    • Updates on prior decisions and review of new topics.
    • Review of content tracker items related to foundational content issues.
    • Evaluation of review(s) from referred AGs on topics related to editorial policy
    • Editorial guide review.

October 2016 - Wellington, New Zealand

  • Business meeting scheduled October 23rd-28th, 2016
  • Editorial AG plans to meet for a full day  - details to be agreed.
  • Initially, plan to follow same agenda as London.

Activities

Members are selected to provide expert review and advice to the Head of Terminology:

  • regarding potential solutions to content issues that require change to editorial policy.  The topics that are discussed may be existing items in the IHTSDO content tracker or issues that arise during the normal course of quality review.
  • where potential resolution of editorial policy may have wide-ranging impact on SNOMED CT content, the AG members will supply technical evaluation of the options and report back to the AG on their findings.
  • to assist in the identification of content issues that have dependencies with other identified issues in order to address the editorial needs in a systematic way.
  • on changes to the Editorial guide that will clarify or improve the consistency in the way content is developed by the editorial staff.

 Communication

The editorial AG will enable two-way communication between the Editorial team and Members on areas relevant to SNOMED CT editorial policy and content development.

The primary routes for communications will be the Editorial AG Confluence Space and AG Meetings.

Communications to the Editorial 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 Editorial AG members only. Requests for closed areas must be sent to jca@ihtsdo.org prior to posting materials.

Criteria for measuring success

The key criteria for success of the Editorial AG in 2016 will be related to the provision of consensus advice to the Head of Terminology on changes to editorial policy. The key measures of success in this area will be:

  • The agreement and acceptance by the Members on changes to editorial policy that results in substantial changes to either the scope of content to be added to SNOMED CT or changes in the structure of the terminology hierarchies.
  • The resolution of long-standing issues around editorial policy that are of limited scope and impact, but have prevented acceptable content from being added to the terminology.
  • An outline of prioritized content issues requiring editorial policy decisions for 2017 and beyond to meet requirements for SNOMED CT content develop education in ways that support and are supported by Members, Vendors and other stakeholders.
  • A close working relationship with the Content Managers AG and the Modeling AG to verify that the decisions originating from the Editorial AG are congruent with both the Content Roadmap and the graceful evolution of the SNOMED CT Concept Model.
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