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The Human Services Data Specification - a data exchange format developed by the Open Referral Initiative
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Was a "type" attribute considered for Organisation or Location? #83

Closed pmackay closed 7 years ago

pmackay commented 9 years ago

This is just a question, but in some of the work I've been doing recently we're trying to model these things and its quite useful to have a type field (or perhaps category) that describes what kind of thing it is.

So a Location might have a list of types such as:

An organisation might have:

Any info on this much appreciated.

monfresh commented 9 years ago

For the location type, you might want to check out what we did for San Mateo County. We called the field "Kind", and you can search for one or more kinds on smc-connect.org.

As for the organization type, perhaps the existing legal_status field would suit your needs.

timgdavies commented 7 years ago

@pmackay I know this is from a while ago - but would welcome any input from you on whether you would still propose a type field for organisations.

I think we would need to get a good few documented use-cases to consider including this in the spec, as it is not something that many systems are likely to have internally in any particularly standard way.

However, there is nothing to stop individual implementations extending the HSDS with a property like this.

klambacher commented 7 years ago

The values you have for organization are in line with the "legal status" field in the AIRS standard and the former "Service Level" field used by data standards bodies in Ontario/Canada previously. I would agree this is useful at the organization level (legal status is often a required field by various data standards). But, it already seems to exist in the schema.

What you are describing above as Service Types would for example fall under the "Organization/Facility Type" Terms in the AIRS Taxonomy. What do you see as the use case for this information? I think the closest I have seen is in mapping systems that use special icons for certain facility types, but even when we implemented this ability in our system it really wasn't used.

pmackay commented 7 years ago

type for a Location might be the kind of thing an asset mapping list for a local community could create. But I appreciate it may rarely be captured in datasets relevant to OR.

legal_status certainly covers one kind of categorisation for Orgs, which is useful.