2016-08-22 Editorial Advisory Group Conference Call

• Approve minutes from 06/27/2016
  
  

Are numeric ranges separated by dash, em-dash, or "to", or "from"?

e.g. |128131000119102|History of low birth weight status, 2-2.5kg (situation).
Is there supposed to be a space between the number and the unit (e.g. 2mg or 2 mg)?

Existing content does not use a space, but use of a space has been standard editorial policy.

Should we use a reference such as AMA or Chicago Manual of Style (and there are probably others) to provide guidance?

Summary of previous discussion: (see 2016-01-22 Editorial AG Conference Call)

• Current FSN naming conventions result in "non-user-friendly" descriptions. Creation of another description without the semantic tag adds no value
• Many existing FSNs would be ambiguous without the addition of the semantic tag.
• Users often do not request "preferred terms" so rely on editors to provide appropriate descriptions.
• Historically, many FSNs were glorified preferred terms
• This is an issue that only affects English versions as translation provide terms of use in their languages
• Challenge to editors is when to create a different preferred term if the FSN term is not user-friendly.
• This has an impact on acceptance of word order variants as preferred terms.

Assumptions:

• Semantic tags provide value in disambiguating concepts in different hierarchies with the same description (e.g Swab (physical object) vs. Swab (specimen))
• Current FSN naming conventions do not always provide user friendly descriptions, so duplication of these descriptions adds no value.

• Consensus on options: 1) require matching description (SCA give error) or 2) matching description optional (SCA gives warning)
• Bruce Goldberg To take this naming issue back to the ECE for discussion and recommendation.

Space Actions

We are meeting for a full day in New Zealand. Need substantive topics to move forward.

• Solicit additional agenda topics for Face-to-face meeting

JCA is traveling Sept 10-23. Meeting scheduled for Sept 26