Do we need support for 'events' or calendars alongside schedules in HSDS?

[timgdavies]

In https://github.com/openreferral/api-specification/issues/23 there is a discussion of being able to sync data about service opening times from the 'events' section of a services website, into referral datasets.

At present, HSDS supports schedules, which give opening times week on week.

Calendar tools, and event plugins on websites, generally support events and recurring events.

So synchronising this into HSDS would either require:

• Adding the concept of events to HSDS;
• Finding a reasonable way to map exception-laden patterns of events and recurring events into a reasonable schedule representation;

Thoughts on this issue for future iterations of HSDS would be welcome.

[timgdavies]

Duplicate of #167. Closing.