OpenReferral only permits taxonomies associated with services
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OpenReferral has service_taxonomy to associate taxonomy terms with services, but no provision for taxonomies associated with other objects, such as organizations.
The proposed LGA extension therefore adds link_taxonomy with a link_type that can be populated with one of:
- organisation
- eligibility
- coverage
- cost_option
- taxonomy
This is a potentially confusing approach but I'm not sure it can be avoided without breaking the original OpenReferral standard.
Can you clarify what you mean by coverage? Is that like service_area?
And, the final bullet of taxonomy– does this suggest a taxonomy for these taxonomies? or is that referring to the existing service_taxonomy concept?
Yes, my understanding of the design is that coverage contains geographies that define service areas, eg the URI http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/statistical-geography/E09000033 from the Office of National Statistics statistical geographies taxonomy. The full ERD is here.
The final bullet of taxonomy represents a copy and paste error into the extended tabular data package. Sorry. I've asked for that to be removed and the documentation regenerated.