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Open Referral HSDS

Information Model Social Services

The Open Referral Initiative develops data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources. Learn more about the about at OpenReferral.org ....

Open Referral, from their own opening paragraph

Also in the API standards catalog

This standard shows up on both sides of the house — as a data model here, and as a standard applied in API operations. Same standard, two lenses.

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Model Details
Steward Open Referral
Origin France
Layer Information Model
Domain Social Services
Status live
Access Not yet established
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 2/2. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Not established
Assessed 17.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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