Greg Bloom

Hi folks, great to see discussion about this topic. Fortunately there is in fact an industry standard for social service operation hours – [Open Referral](@openreferral)'s [Human Service Data Specification](http://docs.openreferral.org/), which...

hrm, this is all from a year ago and I'm excited to start the next cycle on the project but we're not there yet... for now I think we can...

IIRC most of what is in HSDS can also be found in schema.org, except for [`status` in `service`](http://docs.openreferral.org/en/latest/hsds/reference/#service) which is used for something different in schema.org I think the tricky...

@thadguidry can you give some examples of 'organizations that are not government nor NGOs'? Do you mean, by 'CommunityOrganization,' simply mean an unincorporated group of people? I have wondered about...

Sort of, although there's a lot of nuance for social services that would be unusual with commercial organizations (with regards to variable services, eligibility criteria, etc – all which can...

I do wonder if this poses an accessibility challenge for data providers whose records only have unstructured eligibility information – which is most of them. What if the most practical...

@robredpath is this related to #199 and/or #203?

I'm sorry it's taken so long to address this. Previous versions of the spec were posted with sample datapackages, and I'd assumed that would have been the case with v1.0,...

Thanks @monfresh. I know there has been work done on upgraded documentation for the spec, so I'll share your suggestion. Just to clarify: among those CSVs, I believe we still...

At first glance I was also wary of the addition of datapackage.json to our spec, as it appears to another layer of technical complexity that may fall outside of the...