# Referencing terminology in written literature - a linguistic convention

**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/referencing-terminology-in-written-literature-a-linguistic-convention/16243
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**Created:** [14 April 2010 22:46 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/referencing-terminology-in-written-literature-a-linguistic-convention/16243 "2010-04-14T22:46:15Z")
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### Author: ![thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/user_avatar/discourse.openehr.org/thomas.beale/32/35_2.png) [@thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/thomas.beale)
#### Post date: [14 April 2010 22:46 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/referencing-terminology-in-written-literature-a-linguistic-convention/16243/1 "2010-04-14T22:46:15Z")

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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](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](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