OpenReferral only permits taxonomies associated with services

OpenReferralUK / human-services

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.

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OpenReferral only permits taxonomies associated with services #2

Open MikeThacker1 opened 5 years ago

MikeThacker1 commented 5 years ago

OpenReferral has service_taxonomy to associate taxonomy terms with services, but no provision for taxonomies associated with other objects, such as organizations.

The proposed LGA extension therefore adds link_taxonomy with a link_type that can be populated with one of:

organisation
eligibility
coverage
cost_option
taxonomy

This is a potentially confusing approach but I'm not sure it can be avoided without breaking the original OpenReferral standard.

greggish commented 5 years ago

Can you clarify what you mean by coverage? Is that like service_area?

And, the final bullet of taxonomy– does this suggest a taxonomy for these taxonomies? or is that referring to the existing service_taxonomy concept?

MikeThacker1 commented 5 years ago

Yes, my understanding of the design is that coverage contains geographies that define service areas, eg the URI http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/statistical-geography/E09000033 from the Office of National Statistics statistical geographies taxonomy. The full ERD is here.

The final bullet of taxonomy represents a copy and paste error into the extended tabular data package. Sorry. I've asked for that to be removed and the documentation regenerated.