Use Cases

Note

This page is non-normative, which means that it doesn’t form part of the standard; if there is any ambiguity, the standard takes precedence. This page may be updated at any time in response to community demand.

Open Referral’s agenda is set by the prerogatives of a set of four types of users:

• help seekers;

• service providers;

• researchers/analysts;

• database administrators.

Read more about each of these personas in our User Personas documentation.

Current Human Services Data Specification Capabilities

The specification supports:

• Provisioning the minimum amount of data needed to implement some method of search and discovery of services provided by organizations.

• Provisioning ‘recommended’ fields to describe additional elements of data that may be relevant for various purposes related to service delivery and/or analysis.

• Importing machine-readable data into a relational database

• Exchanging resource data between different information-and-referral systems.

• Viewing and editing data using commonly available software such as a spreadsheet or a text editor.