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Uniquely identifying services via an external identifier

Open mrshll1001 opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Continued from each https://github.com/openreferral/api-specification/issues/35 and https://github.com/openreferral/api-specification/issues/77

Noting that we have external identifiers for org-ids and locations already, so this follows precedent. It will likely need a discussion of what registers of services look like.

mrshll1001 avatar Dec 29 '23 12:12 mrshll1001

This conversation is relevant to matching records from multiple (federated) sources.

V3 has the organization_identifier entity - see here in the international schema reference and here in the data model for the UK profile.

In the UK I'd expect the identifier_scheme to reference registers such as those maintained by Companies House and by the Charity Commission.

MikeThacker1 avatar Apr 03 '25 08:04 MikeThacker1