Organization Objects¶
Organization objects have the following fields:
Basics¶
- name (string)
A primary name, e.g. a legally recognized name (required)
- classification (string, null)
An organization category, e.g. committee (required)
- Allowed values:
legislature
executive
upper
lower
party
committee
commission
corporation
agency
department
- parent_id (string, null)
The ID of the organization that contains this organization (required)
- contact_details (array)
Contact information for this entity. (required, minItems: 0)
Each element in contact_details is an object with the following keys:
- note (string, null)
for grouping data by location/etc. (required)
- type (string)
type of contact (e.g. phone, email, address) (required)
- value (string)
actual phone number/email address/etc. (required)
- label (string, null)
human-readable label (required)
- links (array)
URLs for documents about the person (required, minItems: 0)
Each element in links is an object with the following keys:
- note (string, null)
A note, e.g. ‘Wikipedia page’ (required)
- url (string)
A URL for a document about the person (required)
Posts¶
- posts (array)
Posts within the organization (required, minItems: 0)
Each element in posts is an object with the following keys:
- id (string, null)
The post’s unique identifier (required)
- label (string)
A label describing the post (required)
- role (string, null)
The function that the holder of the post fulfills (required)
- start_date (string, null)
The date on which the post was created (required)
(must match format:
^[0-9]{4}(-[0-9]{2}){0,2}$)- end_date (string, null)
The date on which the post was eliminated (required)
(must match format:
^[0-9]{4}(-[0-9]{2}){0,2}$)- contact_details (array)
Contact information for this entity. (required, minItems: 0)
Each element in contact_details is an object with the following keys:
- note (string, null)
for grouping data by location/etc. (required)
- type (string)
type of contact (e.g. phone, email, address) (required)
- value (string)
actual phone number/email address/etc. (required)
- label (string, null)
human-readable label (required)
- links (array)
URLs for documents about the person (required, minItems: 0)
Each element in links is an object with the following keys:
- note (string, null)
A note, e.g. ‘Wikipedia page’ (required)
- url (string)
A URL for a document about the person (required)
Extended Details¶
- image (string, null)
A URL of an image (required)
- founding_date (string, null)
A date of founding (required)
(must match format:
^[0-9]{4}(-[0-9]{2}){0,2}$)- dissolution_date (string, null)
A date of dissolution (required)
(must match format:
^[0-9]{4}(-[0-9]{2}){0,2}$)
Alternate Names/Identifiers¶
- identifiers (array)
IDs other than the primary ID that the object may be known by. (required, minItems: 0)
Each element in identifiers is an object with the following keys:
- scheme (string, null)
What service this identifier is used by. (required)
- identifier (string)
The 3rd-party identifier, such as OKL0001000. (required)
- other_names (array)
Alternate or former names for this object. (required, minItems: 0)
Each element in other_names is an object with the following keys:
- note (string, null)
An optional note describing where this alternate name came from or its relationship to the entity. (required)
- name (string)
An alternate name this object is sometimes known by. (required)
- end_date (string, null)
The date at which this name was no longer valid. (null if still valid/valid indefinitely) (required)
(must match format:
^[0-9]{4}(-[0-9]{2}){0,2}$)- start_date (string, null)
The date at which this name became valid.(null if unknown/valid indefinitely) (required)
(must match format:
^[0-9]{4}(-[0-9]{2}){0,2}$)
Common Fields¶
- updated_at (string, datetime, null)
The time at which the resource was last modified (required)
- created_at (string, datetime, null)
The time at which the resource was created (required)
- sources (array)
URLs for sources relating to the object (required, minItems: 1)
Each element in sources is an object with the following keys:
- url (string)
URL of resource used to collect information (required)
- note (null, string)
note about what information this URL was used for (required)
