Key Actions and Takeaways from the Standing Technical Meetup 02-12-2025
UK Update & Validator Deployment
- Watch the Meet the Early Adopters of Open Referral UK (ORUK) recording.
- Proposed validator deployment and associated website targeted for the end of March.
- UK validation to require minimal compliance with a low threshold of records.
Validator Features & Considerations
- Define Full vs Partial validation:
- Partial: Subset of records, fields, or endpoints?
- Consider developing a separate “sampler” tool for partial validation.
- Determine whether to extend the UK validator or build a new one:
- Skyler: .Net approach seems straightforward.
- Matt: Distinguish between schema validation (compliance) and data quality checks.
- Kate & Skyler: Formatting and completeness ≠ quality.
- Mike: Define key quality aspects—validity, completeness (for a use case), and accuracy.
Distinctions:
- Partial vs Full: Sample vs entire dataset.
- Basic vs Complete: Minimum validation vs complete spec/profile validation.
- Spec Compliance vs Custom Quality: Schema validation vs quality checks.
- Syntactic Correctness vs Truthing: Validation vs verification/provenance.
- Schema vs Endpoint: What level is being validated?
User Feedback & Error Handling
- Define minimum required feedback for users:
- “Description of errors” and clear problem identification.
- Routine validation with automated notifications?
- Allow users to revalidate after fixing errors.
Validator Accessibility & Future Planning
- Interest in downloading and running a validator locally (tabled until April).
- Added to bike rack
Transformer proposal (Interest? Questions?)
- Stimulated a conversation around the initiatives general approach to community tooling which could involve the following:
- Encouragement: To promote innovation
- Input: To ensure alignment
- Endorsement: To support uptake
Metadata API Enhancements
- Discussion in the forum thread developed into a proposal
- Consider record-level metadata in the next subversion.
- Define “Organization” as publisher and align with “Contact” schema.
- Kate to work with us to further specify for longer term