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The Human Services Data Specification - a data exchange format developed by the Open Referral Initiative
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Audience field #123

Closed timgdavies closed 7 years ago

timgdavies commented 7 years ago

The Ohana API has an 'audience' field for services. Issue #5 discussed renaming this to 'target groups', but it appears the field was never included in the datapackage.json or common vocabulary for HSDS.

Is there any use case for this field? Should it exist in version 1.1.

My current presumption is that it should not be included in 1.1, and will be treated as an ohana-specific extension of HSDS.

monfresh commented 7 years ago

I believe the audience field originally came from the San Mateo County data we were working with when we first developed Ohana API. I don't think the information in that field is critical. From looking at a few random entries in on http://www.smc-connect.org/, it seems like its contents are already present in the service description and/or the eligibility fields.

NeilMcKLogic commented 7 years ago

We don't really support the notion of "audience" either, except via similar concepts like target groups in taxonomy assignments; eligibility requirements, etc.

timgdavies commented 7 years ago

Based on this feedback we don't propose any changes in 1.1.