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Glossary
Glossary
Term
Definition
Link
AcP
@Activity providers
ActiveWestminster
ActiveWestminster works with Neighbourhoods through activating Physical Activity, Leisure & Sport across the City of Westminster
Activity
An activity based on the OpenActive Activity List that is a standardised list of physical activities widely practiced in the UK
Activity Providers
Organisations that are responsible for providing activities to meet personal needs
Added Value
Strategies & Tooling that is deemed to take little effort to implement and still add some value. Should include these
Advantage of OA
Are people who should be keen to understand the advantages of Open Active
Anchor points
High level points within the LGA taxonomies where other taxonomies can be anchored
ApP
@Application Provider
ASD
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Beneficiaries
Data ecosystem role for people or organisations that benefit from the data ecosystem because it enables them to make decisions
COM-B
Behaviour Model useds by Open Active and London sport to measure likelihood of participation
Completeness
To measure how complete the data standard is to the recommended fields required. Part of the approach and the
@Completeness checker
@Social-Prescribing-Ready Profile
Considered Wins
Strategies & Tooling that is deemed to take some effort to implement however will add lots of value. Should have a business case
Contributors
Data ecosystem role for the people who contribute to the dataset, either knowingly or unknowingly through use of a service.
Creators
Data ecosystem role for things that use the data to create other things. These could be products, services, analyses, insights, stories or visualisations.
Data stewards
Data ecosystem role who is responsible for collecting, managing or ensuring access to a dataset
DCMS
Department for Digital Culture Media & Sport
Digital Maturity
Assessing the digital maturity of social prescribing applications at either Level 3, Level 4, Level 5
Explore OA
Are people who are currently not well positioned to help Open Active adoption, yet want to keep informed of its wider adoption
Frontline workers
People who work with within a context and provide activities to meet personal need
@Service users
@Social Prescribing
ICP
Integrated care partnership forming part of the
@Integrated Care Systems
ICS
Integrated care systems (ICSs) are new partnerships between the organisations that meet health and care needs across an area, to coordinate services and to plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequalities between different groups.
Integrated Care Systems
Integrated care systems (ICSs) are new partnerships between the organisations that meet health and care needs across an area, to coordinate services and to plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequalities between different groups.
Intermediaries
Data ecosystem role for people or services that add value to a dataset. They are groups that may aggregate data in the ecosystem
Managers
People who are responsible for strategic decisions on public health, budget setting and commissioning
MCRactive
MCRactive are a not for profit organisation established and overseen by Manchester City Council, responsible for driving sport and physical activity across Manchester
Motivation
Factors that determine the likelihood of the individual taking action.
@COM-B
No Value
Strategies & Tooling that is deemed to take some effort to implement however add little value
OA Application Providers
Companies/bodies that are responsible for developing ‘tooling’ to support the ecosystem roles
OAAcP
@OpenActive application providers
ONS4
Method to assess Personal well-being using four measures
Open Referral UK
Open Referral UK, an open data standard for describing and assuring local services.
Opportunity
Easy to access activities that provide opportunities to take action
@COM-B
ORUK
Open Referral UK, an open data standard for describing and assuring local services.
Pathway
The process require to refer to and accept into provision
Patient Activation Measures
Policymakers
Data ecosystem role for those who create policies, principles and measures.
Promote OA
Are people who will help to identify barriers in adopting Open Active in the context of
@Social Prescribing
Quick Wins
Strategies & Tooling that is deemed to take little effort to implement and add lots of value. Should prioritise these
Regulators
Data ecosystem role for those who create and enforce regulatory frameworks.
REST API
Representational state transfer (REST) is a which uses a subset of
.[1] It is commonly used to create applications that use .RPDE
Self Efficacy
Refers to an individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors
@Motivation
Service Users
People who are responsible for deciding which activities to participate in
Showcasing OA
Are people who will demonstrate the advantages of using Open active in the context of
@Social Prescribing
Social Prescribing
1. With one or more long-term conditions
2. Who need support with their mental health
3. Who are lonely or isolated
4. Who have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.
Social-prescribing-ready-session
Under Review: Where a session is determined suitable for social prescribing. Considerations may include, allocated times, suitable environment, accessibility
SP Application Providers
Companies/bodies that provide dedicated software for
@Social Prescribing
SP Ready
Social Prescribing Ready - The proposed for
@Social-Prescribing-Ready Profile
SPAcP
@Social prescribing application provider
SPLW
Social Prescribing Link worker
Validity
To validate the data standard. Part of the tooling and
@Completeness checker
@Social-Prescribing-Ready Profile
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ORUK/OA Terms glossary
Data standard
Currency
Attribute
Defintion
Term type
Attribute value
Link to Technical document
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Accessibility
Description of assistance or infrastructure that facilitate access to clients with disabilities.
Data field
accessibility
OpenActive
Current OA
Accessibility list
Taxonomies part Accessibility conditions
Taxonomy
participantConditionSupported
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Activity intensity
This may come from a taxonomy or use an encoded list (list of types) with common meaning to publishers
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Activity lead
A selection from the proposed new data field for OpenActive
@Facilitator type
Data field
activity_lead
OpenActive
Proposed 🌟
Current OA
Activity type
Existing within OpenActive and needing validation for correct use from the List
@Activity
ConceptScheme
OpenReferral
Proposed 🌟
Current ORUK
Assured date
The date that the information about the service was last checked. This gives confidence that information remains current, even if it was added some time ago
Data field
assured_date
OpenReferral
Proposed 🌟
Current ORUK
Attending access
How an activity can be accessed from a selection of: appointment, drop-in, membership and referral
Data field
attending_access
OpenReferral
Proposed 🌟
Current ORUK
Attending type
How to attend this service from a selection of: phone, online, venue, home visit. Social prescribers would like the option to also include group, one-to-one and self
Data field
attending_type
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Befriender
Data field
befriender
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Carer
A selection from the proposed new data field for OpenActive
@Facilitator type
Data field
carer
OpenActive
Current OA
Concepts
Taxonomies part of activity scheme or conditions
Taxonomy
ConceptScheme
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WXzBByZ5VPSJ3jkxBBKmHK8cGh5XlbKKkdFGXr2KU8M/edit?pli=1#bookmark=id.v9psehevu4qn
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Cost option
The cost option table contains the costs of a service at certain points in time.
cost_option
OpenReferral
Proposed 🌟
Current ORUK
Eligibility
Beyond age and gender restrictions, makes no provision for eligibility requirements. This information is sufficient for most sports opportunities although later provision might be made for the wider eligibility options available to via a Circumstance taxonomy. A query parameter
@OA
@ORUK
Taxonomy
eligibility
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Facilitator type
From a selection of: , , , , ,
@Activity lead
@Befriender
@Carer
@Meet & greet
@Reception
@welcome
Taxonomy
facilitator_type
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Funding
Funding information is absent from . It exists in to help understand commissioning (or subsidy) of services and so help match commissioning to need. Beyond the field of social prescribing, funding information would power analysis of activity funding by Sport England and other bodies
@OA
@OR
Data field
funding
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Further info
Social prescribers have requested more details of an activity such as links to FAQs, videos and photographs (e.g. to help convey accessibility information). See . The Service URI gives the opportunity to link to such information. More specific links to content such as photographs will allow activity finders (including those in social prescribing software) to present a fuller picture of an activity.
@Activity further info
@ORUK
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Language
Not supported in Social prescribers have requested that this information be given for facilitators, so it should be held for each activity, ideally denoting the languages in which the activity is described and languages spoken during the activity
@OA
Data field
language
OpenActive
Proposed 🌟
Location
A supporting REST method listing all the locations of activities. A query parameter
Place
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Location accessibility
This is a free text label in the current version of , both that and would benefit from a taxonomy of location accessibility terms. See Taxonomies below. A location accessibility URL attribute would allow links to more detailed accessibility data published by specialist organisations such as (
@OR
@OA
@AccessAble
Data field
accessibility_for_disabilities
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Meet & greet
A selection from the proposed new data field for OpenActive
@Facilitator type
Data field
meet_greet
OpenActive
Proposed 🌟
Modified date and time
The date and time a record was added or last modified is needed to make incremental updates to copies of data held and to give a degree of confidence in its likely up-to-dateness. Such a date and time is used by and included in RDPE feeds but not within the data structure. A query parameter
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
organization type
The organization record is used to provide basic description and details about each organization delivering or reviewing services. Each service should be linked to the organization responsible for its delivery
Data field
organization
OpenReferral
OpenActive
Current OA
Current ORUK
Organization/Organizer
The URI, added in the UK extension to OR, can be used to add a resolvable unique identifier for the company, charity or other organisation responsible for the service/activity. Where this value exists it can help with deduplication across data feeds. uses Organizer as is either a Person or Organizaton object. See
@OA
Data field
organization
Person
OpenActive
Proposed 🌟
Payment
Cash or card; Commission with invoice
payment
OpenActive
OpenReferral
Proposed 🌟
Proximity
Specified by a postcode and a given distance (radius) from the postcodes centroid. A query parameter
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Reception
A selection from the proposed new data field for OpenActive
@Facilitator type
Data field
reception
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Review
“Review” in is designed to record organisations that have reviewed a service/activity and the score that each organisation has assigned (from its own scale) such as “Approved”, “Rejected”, “Satisfactory” or “Passed audit”. This information allows a prescriber to determine if an activity meets the criteria it sets for prescribing. In addition to a review name/identifier and score, a reference attribute is needed for certificate or registration numbers. The review attribute can also be used to record the results of Safeguarding (DBS) and Health & Safety checks. See discussion of a approach
@ORUK
@Provider quality assurance
Data field
review
OpenActive
Current OA
Scheduled session
Describing individual activities which are normally available for booking
ScheduledSession
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Service area
The geographical extents of the area within which residents are eligible to attend the activity. Such area restrictions tend not to apply to physical activities, although they can affect prices charged
Data field
OpenReferral
Current ORUK
Service Type
A service list provides a standard way of referring to each service when communicating within and between organisations.
service_type
OpenActive
Current OA
Session Series
Describing an activity and the dates/times when it is delivered
SessionSeries
OpenReferral
OpenActive
Proposed 🌟
Target audience
An indented audience taken from a taxonomy such as the , List or situations branch. A query parameter
@LGA Circumstances list
@OpenActive hierarchical concepts
@Open Eligibility
Taxonomy
OpenReferral
OpenActive
Proposed 🌟
Taxonomy
the OR data structure uses “” to describe the type of service delivered from a controlled/shared vocabulary. This approach is matched by the “” object in OA. ORUK (and version 2 of OR) extends the standard via link_taxonomy which supports taxonomies describing service properties other than the , such as , , organization type, . See a fuller discussion of taxonomies below. Taxonomy terms apply to these activity attributes that are important to social prescribers:
@Service Type
@Activity
@Service Type
@Eligibility
@Accessibility
@Target audience
@Cost option
Activity accessibility 🌟
🌟 - existing within OpenActive and needing validation for correct use from the Activity List
@Activity type
Location accessibility 🌟
🌟 - taken from a taxonomy such as the , Open Active’s Concept List or situations branch
@Target audience
@LGA Circumstances list
@Activity
@Open Eligibility
Taxonomy
OpenActive
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
Welcome
A selection from the proposed new data field for OpenActive
@Facilitator type
Data field
welcome
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Currency
Currency
Description
Current
@OA
Term or already exists with the OpenActive data standard
Proposed 🌟
Proposed addition to data standard
Proposed SP Ready 🌟
To form part of the
@Social-Prescribing-Ready Profile
Current
@ORUK
Term or already exists with the Open Referral data standard
There are no rows in this table
Attributes
Event Type
Url
Currency
facilitator_type
Proposed 🌟
befriender
Proposed 🌟
carer
Proposed 🌟
meet_greet
Proposed 🌟
reception
Proposed 🌟
welcome
Proposed 🌟
activity_lead
Proposed 🌟
payment
Proposed 🌟
participantConditionSupported
Current OA
There are no rows in this table
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