The Alliance of Information and Referral Services (AIRS) Linked Open Vocabulary
The AIRS Linked Open Vocabulary is a way to describe human services information and referral (I&R) concepts. AIRS is the Alliance of Information and Referral Services (airs.org), which possesses over 1,000 member agencies primarily in the United States and Canada. The AIRS LOV is based on the AIRS XML Schema, available at: https://airs-xml.googlecode.com/hg/tags/3.1/airs.xsd
These are alternate names for an object. Confidential indicates that the alternate name won't be shared with the public.
Information about any age or gender related requirements or inclusions for a particular service at a particular location.
Describes what update action was taken to update the resource information, such as "updated the resource specialist's name".
Use this if the address can not be shared due to security concerns, such as an assaulted women's shelter. While it is possible to code an address as Confidential="true", in this case the address is so confidential that it won't be shared at all.
This is a unique string indicating the organization that created and maintains this Agency record.
General eligibility is a text area to list any eligibility requirements for participation or services. This can include any exclusions, both negative and positive requirements (i.e. must have/ can't have are all requirements)
This represents a referenceable street location of an item, using an addressing system other than geospatial terms, often with postal system terms. airs:hasDescription is a description of the physical location or other information pertinent to this address, and hasExplanationForNoPhysicalAddress clarifies why the address doesn't have a physical presence.
Agency
Agencia
Agence
Agencies are organizations that offer services at locations. Agencies provide services directly or they may have "child" agencies that offer these services. Services are offered at sites that belong to an agency. Services are represented by the combination of taxonomy codes offered at a location; this idea is called a SiteService. To recap: Agencies don't provide services directly, they provide them through sites. For property <http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns:hasRelated> This represents the agency contact. 1) Contact is the person at an Agency, or Site who will interface with the public or who has responsibility for the entity, like a site manager or director.
ApplicationProcess describes the steps taken to apply for or access the service; also known as the 'intake process'. For example, "Call for an appointment" or "Walk in only".
A document that is required in order to access services offered at a SiteService.
A web location that has more information related to the SiteService, Agency, etc.. For example a facebook page for the Agency, that is supplementary to the Agency's main website.
Languages offered, and available times, at the SiteService
If applicable, information about the license type (dct:title)/accreditation held by the agency and the body that licensed/accredited it.
The hours that the SiteService is open. Can have complex schedules. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445.
For property <http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns:hasRelated>, it indicates the person within each agency who has overall responsibility for updating the information about the agency, its sites and its services, etc.
Activities that are only offered a certain time of year, such as seasonal tax preparation, summer camps and holiday meals.
Akin to a "Program", as in for example "a homeless outreach program". Can be delivered at many "airs:Site[s]", and the nexus of the two is an airs:SiteService
This is the geographic area served by the SiteService. This can be anything from a single neighborhood to an entire country. Types can also be mixed; perhaps one city and 6 nearby ZIP codes. In this case the required element would be City and there would be additional ZIP codes. A national 1-800 hotline would have one Country element.
Groups together multiple Services that are related somehow.
Sites are physical locations or none physical locations (a website or hotline). Site is used for two purposes. First, it is used by Agency to provide the location of the agency in Agency.AgencyLocation (note this type of Site would never have any SiteService children). Second, sites are also the location where services are provided. This would be the Agency.Site element (note this type of Site would have SiteService children).
Directions are instructions to reach the Site's location.
SiteService is the smallest unit describing a "service" that is offered at a Site. It can be thought of as the intersection of a Site and a Taxonomy code (or related Taxonomy codes) and meta data about what is offered. A "Service" however is not represented as its own element because the "Service" cannot exist without a location (the site).
Georgia
Marietta
This is the main address for this agency.
United States of America
Esta es la dirección principal de esta agencia.
The Community Clinic
The community clinic provides basic health care for members of the community.
The prospective enrollee must have their income verified.
income verification
A valid State of Georgia Driver's License.
driver's license
A facebook page that the clinic keeps to maintain a social media presence.
A twitter page that the clinic keeps to maintain a social media presence.
A native French speaker is often available at this location.
French
Alliance of Information and Referral Services (AIRS)
This program is open every weekday.
This program is available only during the month of June.
Family is encouraged to enroll.
Must be a resident of Marietta.
Must be at 150% of poverty level.
Must be receiving Medicaid.
The Community Clinic Main Street Annex
This is a new service location on Main Street.