Services

This is about defining basic information about all the services available to a community. More detailed information and interactions with those services would be defined on other pages.

Existing work

schema.org

http://schema.org/GovernmentService

http://blog.schema.org/2013/08/vocabulary-for-describing-civic-services.html

Open Data Communities (UK)

http://opendatacommunities.org/data/dev-local-authorities

All local authorities are defined and their services listed as linked data using schema.org.

Services explorer

• Exploring what Local Authorities do for you
• Services app

Open Referral (USA)

https://www.openreferral.org/

A project in the US to create a specification for community resources.

Ohana API

Ohana is the reference implementation of the Open Referral specification and provides and API for services information.

http://ohanapi.org/

Service Map (Finland)

http://dev.hel.fi/servicemap

A Helsinki project to represent local services on a map with detailed routing and accessibility integration.

API: http://api.hel.fi/servicemap/v1/

Projects:

• https://github.com/City-of-Helsinki/servicemap
• https://github.com/City-of-Helsinki/smbackend

Open Local Information Directory (Sheffield, UK)

https://github.com/ianibo/OpenLocalInformationDirectory

Directories

Platforms

• ALISS

Open311 APIs

• West Berks

Examples

• http://www.useyourcommunity.co.uk/
• https://socialsca.pe/#/entries
• http://www.healthycitydirectory.co.uk/
• http://www.e.volve.org.uk

Leicestershire APIs

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AnneJones3/posts/RCApf2yJk4w

http://hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/

http://apis.leicestershirecommunity.com/atoz-items.html

Local offer

The local offer is a requirement Department for Education’s Children and Families Bill, to publish support for children with special needs.

• http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/article/26714/Special-educational-needs---local-offer
• http://www.openobjects.com/?post_type=familyinformation&p=1970

Examples

• https://www.surreysendlo.co.uk/