This is great. From: Greg Bloom <bl...@openreferral.org> Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 7:14 AM Subject: Socrata announces support for Open Referral To: cl...@e-democracy.org
Yesterday we heard from Socrata that they will adopt our Human Services Data Spec to help their government clients publish data about services. Hi - I hope you had a great summer. We've been hard at work with some upcoming releases. Yesterday, we were excited to announce that *the Open Referral format has been adopted by Socrata*, a leading provider of open data infrastructure for government agencies around the United States. On our blog <http://openreferral.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5d2fb1add57be7c39ea1d05ee&id=f4b923ba0e&e=a5c4586fd0>, Socrata's Stuart Gano writes: "Moving forward, Socrata will leverage our ‘Open Referral Connector’ to help any of the hundreds of our government customers to aggregate resource directory datasets that are stored on our portal, and transform this data into data packages that comply with the Open Referral format." This development will make it easier for governments to publish standardized, machine-readable data about the services that they provide – and fund. That can be useful not only for residents using Socrata's open data portal itself, but also third-party referral providers who can consume data in bulk from Socrata, and collectively reach orders of magnitude more people. It's one more step toward a future in which there are many accessible and effective ways for people to find and use information about the resources that are available to people in need. If you or your government partners use Socrata and would like to explore a pilot project, please be in touch! Onward, Greg PS: Also on the blog, earlier this summer Kin Lane led a hackathon that adopted an open source resource locator app to work directly from an Open Referral API <http://openreferral.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=5d2fb1add57be7c39ea1d05ee&id=727af6d354&e=a5c4586fd0>. Our ecosystem is expanding! We have another hackathon later this week, and would welcome your suggestions for actionable projects to work on. ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/48XnWqkaeWnfW3NRa9EyzB Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
