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The Human Services Data Specification - a data exchange format developed by the Open Referral Initiative
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...
The **metadata** resource definition includes a number of foreign key entries all referring to the same **resource_id** field but referencing different resource tables, e.g. location, service, etc. Although it is...

This issue is to provide a central, coordinating issue to the background behind why the Open Referral UK team want to make changes to the way that we represent various...
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'...
Most `id` fields in [datapackage.json](https://github.com/openreferral/specification/blob/master/datapackage.json) are described with the text "Each X must have a unique identifier". However, in most cases, this is not properly declared in datapackage.json which contains...
In there is no "categories" table mentioned http://docs.openreferral.org/en/latest/hsds/reference/ but https://github.com/openreferral/specification/blob/master/database/hsda_core.sql has such a table that isn't referenced by other tables. There also seems to be a Fee table that is...
As far as I can tell, in common usage, the AIRS is one taxonomy (much less frequently called a vocabulary) that contains a large number of entities that I believe...
The [Open referral tabular data package](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openreferral/specification/master/datapackage.json) includes five enumerations as field constraints. We have found that two of them are inadequate for implementation of the standard in England: - eligibility.eligibility...
Our work in England has identified the need to use taxonomy terms from external vocabularies for these entities as well as services: - accessibility (see [Issue 207](https://github.com/openreferral/specification/issues/207)) - cost_option -...