Extensions proposed by the English Local Government Association (LGA) and the local government OpenCommunity project to the OpenReferral standard for human services data. Schema generator code is given to express the schema in various formats. Data conversion routines to make it conform to the standard. API that serves the data in a format compliant with the standard.
OpenCommunity discovery work recommended adding a a new data structure for identifiers such as
Companies House reference
Charity Number
This approach is good for finding duplicates across multiple ‘data custodians’.
iStandUK says that this is similar to the structure originally proposed by LGA in version 1 of their Locally Delivered Services schema (teh CSV schema). This approach allows for codes to be used that are not URIs. The LGA / Open Referral UK spec should move to this.
We've not changed the initial Open Referral UK spec to add this as it came up late in 2019/20 work, but I think it should be a high priority for the next version.
OpenCommunity discovery work recommended adding a a new data structure for identifiers such as
This approach is good for finding duplicates across multiple ‘data custodians’.
iStandUK says that this is similar to the structure originally proposed by LGA in version 1 of their Locally Delivered Services schema (teh CSV schema). This approach allows for codes to be used that are not URIs. The LGA / Open Referral UK spec should move to this.
We've not changed the initial Open Referral UK spec to add this as it came up late in 2019/20 work, but I think it should be a high priority for the next version.
There are no backwards compatibility issues.