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The Human Services Community Group has been launched: http://www.w3.org/community/humanservices/ -------------------------------------------------- Goals The goals of the Community Group on Human Service Data are to: 1. Create an ongoing conversation space around data standards in the human service sector that will involve stakeholders from multiple perspectives including: 1a. Both government human service agencies and nonprofits/charities; 1b. Diverse substantive areas (e.g. welfare benefits eligibility, information and referral services, homelessness, substance abuse, child welfare, juvenile justice, etc.); 1c. Diverse stakeholder purposes including exchange of data for operational purposes and collection of data for performance measurement, evaluation and policy research. 2. Facilitate the development, improvement and convergence of human service data standards, vocabularies, ontologies, and domain models by: 2a. Fostering wider recognition of existing efforts and artifacts; 2b. Analyzing the strengths, limitations, and areas of overlap, agreement and divergence of existing efforts and artifacts; 2c. Identifying areas where standards do not yet exist but are needed; 2d. Convening working groups of diverse composition to develop and improve standards; 2e. Promoting the adoption of standards. Scope of Work The boundary of the Community Group’s work is the set of substantive areas which are recognized in the United States and/or internationally as falling within the human service sector. This includes but is not limited to information and referral services, income support and other welfare benefits, employment training, homelessness, substance abuse, mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, domestic violence, and senior services. The borders between the human service sector on the one hand and the health, education and justice sectors on the other hand are not firmly defined. The community group will be open to working on any area that is related to the human services and is not entirely within the boundaries of the health, education or justice sectors. Deliverables To be determined. Dependencies or Liaisons The Community Group will seek to form relationships with organizations including but not limited to: * American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) * [U.S.] National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Human Service Domain * Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS) * Software and Technology Vendors’ Association (SATVA) * United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) * Sahana Software Foundation * Human Service Information Technology Applications (HUSITA) -------------------------------------------------- To join: http://www.w3.org/community/humanservices/join If you do not have one already, you will need a W3C account to join: http://www.w3.org/community/account/request This is a community initiative. W3C's hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of its activities. The group now has access to W3C-hosted services for email, blog, wikis, irc, tracking tools, and more. Read more about tools and services available by default and upon request: http://www.w3.org/community/about/tool/ If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org Thank you, W3C Community Development Team
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