This is just a small thing, but at the moment there is as far as I know no published convention in IHTSDO or elsewhere for the lingustic referencing of coded terms in literature, including specifications and academic papers. To see what I mean, see http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/term/Proposal+for+linguistic+convention+for+referencing+coded+terms
Ed Cheetham at CFH pointed out the Snomed constraint syntax in the HL7 TermInfo DSTU -http://www.hl7.org/v3ballot/html/welcome/environment/index.htm
Foundation → Using SNOMED CT → Annex B.3
This is not quite the same thing, but overlaps. Obviously, a syntax for computing purposes and a syntax for human purposes might not be the same thing but since the constraint syntax is an abstract syntax, it should not be hard to develop a superset that can be used for all purposes.
feedback welcome.
- thomas beale