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The open source API directory of community social services.
http://ohana-api-demo.herokuapp.com/api
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National Resources #389

Open JordanLyons opened 8 years ago

JordanLyons commented 8 years ago

It would be great if the test data included at least some national sites that agencies everywhere would want to connect with. Examples I can think of are CMS, Social Security, and the Alzheimer's Association.

monfresh commented 8 years ago

Hi @JordanLyons. Thanks for the comment. Could you please elaborate? What would be the benefit of adding those national sites to the test data?

JordanLyons commented 8 years ago

It would allow people experimenting with a redeploy in different cities to have some useful examples without having the added step of researching local resources.

greggish commented 8 years ago

I'd say that this might go beyond just examples, in terms of use value. Resources that are available across the country might very well be valuable for any local deployment of Ohana.

However, this doesn't seem like a feature that can be fixed by code. We'd need to address the supply problem -- to get organizations with national scope, and federal government agencies etc, to publish their resource directory data in the HSDS format (or at least with the key fields in a machine-readable format that could be easily transformed to HSDS).

JordanLyons commented 8 years ago

Maybe this page on the wiki could include a suggestion or two of where to find more HSDS data.

JordanLyons commented 8 years ago

Are there currently I&A agencies sharing their data that I could get in HSDS format in a CSV? What would be the easiest way to do that?

greggish commented 8 years ago

I know that iCarol, for one, has implemented an HSDS CSV export feature, and other I&R vendors have told me that they'll implement as well.

Are you just looking for sample data?

I'd be happy to think through how you might engage organizations within your community in these conversations, so that you could potentially have locally-maintained data to work with.