working through some options for describing local community resources in a flexible way.
first goal is to start describing the entities, attributes, and relationships in an outline that could be translated into a JSON schema.
google worksheet for organizing is here.
and an outline for organizing the documentation about the model is started here.
JSON schema reference can be found at http://json-schema.org/. lots of common types and good work already done at http://schema.org
- A more flexible model is needed to help people organize their resource data
- Some people need spreadsheets, others need databases and APIs. We'll have a better chance of making those things interoperable if we have a common model to reference
- Civic technologists can start developing digital tools faster if they have a quicker way to learn about the info needs of this space
- machine readable documentation
- friendliness with schema.org, where a lot of work has already been done
- ability to receive and organize information from AIRS-compatible data systems with minimum info loss
- ability to take data in this schema and re-organize it for presentation using the existing data structures available at schema.org
- civic technologists use this model to better understand the information needs of help seekers and community resource data stewards... and that will help them build better tools to solve problems
- someone uses a simplified (flatter) version of this model to design a spreadsheet to help low-tech folks organize their data
- someone uses real-world data organized in this schema to inform the development of their database or API
- the perfect way to organize a database
- written to be understood by entry-level technologists (not today, anyway!)
- validated