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The Human Services Data Specification - a data exchange format developed by the Open Referral Initiative
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"description" or "definition" field in taxonomy table #211

Closed JordanLyons closed 10 months ago

JordanLyons commented 4 years ago

I feel like including a description or definition of each record in the taxonomy table might be useful and popular enough to merit inclusion in the HSDS. Open to others' thoughts on this. Thanks!

MikeThacker1 commented 4 years ago

My view is that the taxonomy_id (alone or combined with the "vocabulary") should be sufficient to be able to link to the full taxonomy/vocabulary maintained outside of the Open Referral standard. That is where the description/definition and potentially many other properties may be held for the taxonomy term.

Looking at our data, I see we use the full URI (eg http://id.esd.org.uk/service/730 ) for service type. This resolves in a web browser to show information in properties that are defined by DCTerms and SKOS.

devinbalkind commented 4 years ago

I think this is useful to include as well.

Our clients often want to display descriptive text next to categories in their browse views - and rarely are they referencing some third party taxonomy.

robredpath commented 4 years ago

This is incorporated in a new proposal about taxonomies - please see https://docs.google.com/document/d/10PAWTrHn6zHuFVUUpsibjD5UmnhmrIkRQDFk7pKA0Pw/edit#heading=h.1j4g3dch4jc9 and let me know if it works!

mrshll1001 commented 10 months ago

Closing as both taxonomy and taxonomy_term schemas have a desciption fielda s of 3.0