Open 311 Service Request

An entity of type ServiceRequest is an acceptable Open 311 service request. Such entity encompasses all the properties defined by Open 311 at POST Service Request and GET Service Request.

Using this data model and a FIWARE NGSI version 2 implementation it is straightforward to implement a service compliant with the Open 311 specifications.

Data Model

  • id : Entity's unique identifier. It might be equal to a string representation of service_request_id.

  • type : It must be Open311:ServiceRequest.

The following fields defined by Open 311 are allowed to be attributes of this entity type:

  • service_request_id

  • jurisdiction_id

  • service_code

  • service_name

  • description

  • agency_responsible. Please note that this is semantically equivalent to the provider property (name subproperty) of schema.org.

  • service_notice

  • address_string

  • address_id

  • zipcode

  • status

  • status_notes

  • requested_datetime

  • updated_datetime

  • expected_datetime

  • lat

  • long

  • media_url

  • email

  • first_name

  • last_name

  • phone

  • device_id

  • account_id

  • address. If used it must be renamed to open311:address.

All attribute types must be coherent with the Open 311 definitions. Applications must use the types Text, Number and DateTime accordingly.

To support FIWARE NGSI v2 geoqueries concerning Open311 Service Requests the following property must be added:

  • location : Location of the area on which this service request is concerned.
    • Attribute type: GeoJSON geometry.
    • Mandatory if the service request is geolocated.

Additionally, applications might use the following standard schema.org structured properties:

Note 1: Applications are responsible of keeping consistency between the location field and the Open 311 lat and long fields. The same can be said about: + address property and the Open 311 fields related to it (zipcode, address_string, etc.). + contactPoint property and fields like (first_name, last_name, etc.)*

Note 2: This NGSI data model does not allow the use of address property defined by Open 311. This has been done on purpose as we want to keep the address property consistent with http://schema.org/address. Applications are encouraged to use address_string instead and do the corresponding mapping at the adaptation layer.

To support the attribute parameter of Open 311 service requests this NGSI data model adds the following property (please note it has been pluralized, to keep consistency with ServiceType):

  • attributes : It is a dictionary with a key per attribute defined by the corresponding ServiceType. The key value is always an array of strings. If an attribute is singled valued then such array will only contain one element.

Examples of use

{
  "id": "service-request:638344",
  "type": "Open311:ServiceRequest",
  "service_request_id": 638344,
  "status": "closed",
  "status_notes": "Duplicate request.",
  "service_name": "Aceras",
  "service_code": 234,
  "description": "Acera en mal estado con bordillo partido en dos",
  "agency_responsible": "Ayuntamiento de Ciudad",
  "requested_datetime": "2010-04-14T06:37:38-08:00",
  "updated_datetime": "2010-04-14T06:37:38-08:00",
  "expected_datetime": "2010-04-15T06:37:38-08:00",
  "address_string": "Calle San Juan Bautista, 2",
  "attributes": {
     "ISSUE_TYPE": ["Bordillo"]
  },
  "location": {
    "type": "Point",
    "coordinates": [  -3.164485591715449, 40.62785133667262 ]
  },
  "media_url":"http://exaple.org/media/638344.jpg"
}

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