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Person

People

This page defines the Person resource and several related objects: EmailAddress, PhoneNumber, Profile, PostalAddress.

Person

Name Type Description
family_name string Last name
given_name string First name
additional_name string An additional name not included in family or given. Usually a middle name.
honorific_prefix string An honorific prefix like "Dr", "Mr" etc. Free-form field
honorific_suffix string An honorific suffix like "Jr.", "Ph.D" Free-form field
gender string The gender binary with which a person most closely identifies, or "Other" if the person identifies with neither. One of "Female", "Male", "Other".
gender_identity string The self-described gender with which a person identifies. Free-form field. While this field is free-form, data should still follow standardized forms whenever possible (i.e. use "Female" and not "female" or "F"). Examples: If a person self-identifies as "Female", both gender and gender_identity fields should have a value of "Female". If a person self-identifies as "Transgender Female", gender should have a value of "Female" and gender_identity should have a value of "Transgender Female".
party_identification_identification string Flexenum describing the person's politcal party_identification. Values: "None", "Democratic", "Republican", "Independent"
source string Information about the source where this person record was acquired. Eg "Ref74"
origin_system string Human readable name of the system where this person was created
birthdate hash A hash representing the birth date
birthdate.month integer integer representing the month of the birth date
birthdate.day integer integer representing the day of the birth date
birthdate.year integer integer representing the 4 digit year of the birth date
ethnicities string[] An array containing a person's ethinicities
languages_spoken string[] Unique string array of languages spoken by the person. Values should be two-letter ISO 639 codes.
employer string The name of the person's employer
employer_address PostalAddress The postal address of the person's employer
occupation string The occupation of the person.
identifiers Identifier[] A collection of identifiers the provider has determined to be associated with the person
postal_addresses PostalAddress[] An array of postal addresses associated with the person
email_addresses EmailAddress[] An array of email addresses associated with the person
phone_numbers PhoneNumber[] An array of phone numbers associated with the person
profiles Profile[] An array of profiles for online services
donations Donation[]* A collection of donations associated with the person
question_answers QuestionAnswer[]* A collection of answers to questions from surveys
event_attendance Attendance[]* A collection of attendance records for a person
interactions Interaction[]* A collection of outreach interactions for a person, eg Volunteer Joe called voter Sam F. Bar
taggings Tagging[]* A collection of taggings for a person

Email Address

Name Type Description
primary boolean Denotes if this is the primary address. A person can have only one primary address
address string The actual email address according to RFC822
address_type string Flexenum of Personal, Work, Other
subscribed boolean Indicates whether or not this email address is subscribed to at least one email list (read only)

Phone Number

Name Type Description
primary boolean Denotes if this is the primary phone number. A person can have only one primary number
number string The actual phone number which MUST including country code and MUST be numeric characters only
extension string Optional associated extension
description string Optional Free form additional text description
number_type string flexenum of Home, Work, Mobile, Other, Daytime, Evening, Fax
operator string Optional: Operator/Carrier associated with number, eg "Verizon"
country string Country code according to ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2
sms_capable boolean True if the number can accept sms text messages
do_not_call boolean True if this number is registered on the US FCC Do Not Call Registry

Profile

Profiles correspond to a person's accounts on online services like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Name Type Description
provider string The provider name, eg "Facebook"
id string The unique identifier provided by the provider, eg "135165"
url string The URL to the user's web viewable profile, eg "http://facebook.com/johnqpublic"
handle string The handle name, eg "johnqpublic." Twitter handles should not include the "@"

Custom Fields

Custom fields are arbitrary key/value pairs associated with the person that are created by a user, not created by the server or vendor. For example, custom fields are appropriate to store information a user decided to collect on a particular form, like whether the person filling out a form wants to volunteer. They are not appropriate for storing extra information the server or vendor has on this person that doesn't fit into the OSDI spec, such as a person's modeling score. In this way, custom fields are designed to be a more flexible and lightweight version of Survey Questions and Answers.

Name Type Description
[key] string The key associated with this custom field, with a corresponding value as a string. May be prefixed by servers based on naming conventions they document to control how collisions across systems and data sets occur.

Postal Address

Name Type Description
primary boolean Denotes if this is the primary address. A person can have only one primary address
address_type string Type of address "Home","Work","Mailing"
venue string Optional venue name at the address, useful for events. (ex: Smith Hall)
address_lines string[] Address lines 1 - n
locality string A locality or other local administrative area
region string region / subdivision codes according to ISO 3166-2 (Final 2 alpha digits)
postal_code string Region specific postal code
country string Country code according to ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2
language string Language in which the address is recorded -- language code according to ISO 639
location hash Location information for the address
.latitude string Geolocation latitude
.longitude string Geolocation longitude
.accuracy string One of "Rooftop", "Approximate"
status string One of "Potential", "Verified", "Bad".

Region and Country codes

Country Codes should conform to ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2

Examples:

Country Code
United regions US
Canada CA
Cyprus CY

In the United regions, region abbreviations should conform to ISO 3166-2:US but using only the final two alphanumeric characters

Examples:

region Code
New Jersey NJ
California CA
New York NY
Washington WA

Identifier

  • Any OSDI entity may generate an identifier to refer to a real person.

  • Identifiers are composed of two segments:

      <issuer-id>:<person-id>

    The issuer-id must be a unique string that identifies the issuer and has been registered by the issuer with OSDI. Valid characters for issuer-id are any printable US-ASCII character other than : and SPACE.

    The person-id should be a unique string within the namespace of issuer-id that identifies the person. Valid characters for person-id are any printable US-ASCII character other than SPACE.

    Example: The company "Voter Labs" registers their issuer-id as "voterlabs" with OSDI. Their internal database id for Jane Doe is 123456. Jane's OSDI identifier is: voterlabs:123456.

  • Identifiers are not associated with a particular representation of a person record. When a person record is updated, the identifier should not change as a result.

  • An OSDI entity must retain any identifiers it previously issued to refer to this person in the identifiers collection.

  • The identifiers collection does not prescribe how an OSDI consumer should utilize the collection for merging or updating their own person records. It's only purpose is to communicate that a real person has been referred to by those identifiers and that the OSDI provider believes those identifiers to all be associated with the same real person.

  • Identifiers must be persistent and consumers of a provider's OSDI API should always be able to request a person record by any identifier the provider previously used as their canonical identifier. If an identifier is no longer the canonical identifier for the requested person record, the response should be an HTTP 301 redirect to the new record for that real person. The new record should have the new canonical identifier in the identifier field and all previously issued identifiers in the identifiers collection.

Merging Records

Determining how, when, and whether two person records should be merged, and then determining which record is more authoritative for each data element of a record is a very difficult task. Automating that process is highly error prone and defining a standard process for merging records goes beyond the scope of OSDI's charter. OSDI is only responsible for establishing a standard for how OSDI entities communicate with each other that they have merged records by whatever internal processes they have defined.

Example

Voter Labs is a data provider who provides OSDI-formatted data. Voter Labs identifies a new supporter. They create a new person record for this supporter and assign them a new identifier:

Figure 1.

{
    "given_name": "Edwin",
    "family_name": "Labadie"
    "email_addresses": ["[email protected]"],
    "identifiers": [
        "voterlabs:1234"
    ]
}

Voter Labs also has an existing record in their database that looks like this:

Figure 2.

{
    "given_name": "Edwin",
    "family_name": "Labadie"
    "additional_name": "Marques"
    "email_addresses": ["[email protected]"],
    "identifiers": [
        "voterlabs:5678"
    ]
}

Through some internally-defined process, Voter Labs decides the two records represent the same person and should be merged. Also through some internally-defined process, they determine which record should be trusted for which fields and determine which record's identifier is the new canonical identifier. The resulting merged record would look like this:

Figure 3.

{
    "given_name": "Edwin",
    "family_name": "Labadie"
    "additional_name": "Marques"
    "email_addresses": ["[email protected]"],
    "identifiers": [
        "voterlabs:1234",
        "voterlabs:5678"
    ]
}

What this new record means is that voterlabs:1234 is the new id by which Voter Labs refers to this real person and that voterlabs:5678 is another id by which this real person has previously been referred to.

"Jane Doe For Congress" is a consumer of the Voter Labs API. They have a locally cached representation of both records before Voter Labs merged the two records. When "Jane Doe For Congress" requests the record voterlabs:5678 from the Voter Labs API, they should get a 301 redirect to the newly merged record seen above (Figure 3).

Scenarios / Examples

JSON respresenations below are provided as an informative reflection of what the wire format would look like.
The tables above are the authoritative specification of the attributes. Any discrepancy should defer to the above tables.

Person Signup Helper

The Person Signup Helper provides a simple method for adding a new person to a collection. It also supports adding tags and list membership info.

The Person Signup helper can be determined in the AEP with the "osdi:person_signup_helper" link relation

The response to a Person Signup Helper is the full representation of the person.

Some initial implementations may only support helpers, direct RESTful access may not be supporter. In those cases,_links may be omitted in responses.

Parameters

The Person Signup Helper takes the following parameters in its body

  • Inlined Person - A "person" attribute conaining any valid attributes of a person resource are valid in the input representation
  • add_tags - a collection of tag names
  • add_lists - an array of list names

Example

Request

POST /api/v1/person_signup_helper

{
    "person" : {
        "family_name": "Edwin",
        "given_name": "Labadie",
        "additional_name": "Marques",
        "origin_system": "OpenSupporter",
        "email_addresses": [
            {
                "address":"[email protected]",
                "primary": true,
                "address_type": "Personal"
            }
        ],
        "postal_addresses": [
            {
                "primary": true,
                "address_lines": [
                    "935 Ed Lock"
                ],
                "locality": "New Dudley",
                "region": "MN",
                "postal_code": "17678",
                "country": "RU",
                "address_type": "Home",
                "status": "Verified"
            },
        "phone_numbers": [
            {
                "primary": true,
                "number": 19876543210,
                "number_type": "Mobile",
                "sms_capable": true
            }
        ],
        "gender": "Male"
    }
    "add_tags" : [ "volunteer", "donor" ],
    "add_lists" : [ "supporters" ]
}

Response

    200 OK

    {
        "family_name": "Edwin",
        "given_name": "Labadie",
        "additional_name": "Marques",
        "origin_system": "OpenSupporter",
        "email_addresses": [
            {
                "address":"[email protected]",
                "primary": true,
                "address_type": "Personal"
            }
        ],
        "postal_addresses": [
            {
                "primary": true,
                "address_lines": [
                    "935 Ed Lock"
                ],
                "locality": "New Dudley",
                "region": "MN",
                "postal_code": "17678",
                "country": "RU",
                "address_type": "Home",
                "status": "Verified"
            },
        "phone_numbers": [
            {
                "primary": true,
                "number": 19876543210,
                "number_type": "Mobile",
                "sms_capable": true
            }
        ],
        "gender": "Male",
        "_embedded" : {
            "osdi:taggings" : { .... }
            "osdi:lists" : { .... }
        }
    }

Get a list of people with pagination

GET /api/v1/people?per_page=2&page=1

200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "total_pages": 1,
    "page": 1,
    "total_records": 2,
    "people": [
        {
            "family_name": "Edwin",
            "given_name": "Labadie",
            "additional_name": "Marques",
            "origin_system": "OpenSupporter",
            "identifiers": [
                "osdi:23"
            ],
            "email_addresses": [
                {
                    "address":"[email protected]",
                    "primary": true,
                    "address_type": "Personal"
                }
            ],
            "phone_numbers": [
                {
                    "primary": true,
                    "number": 19876543210,
                    "number_type": "Mobile",
                    "sms_capable": true
                }
            ],
            "gender": "Male",
            "gender_identity": "Male",
            "party_identification": "Democrat",
            "source": "sed",
            "ethnicities": ["Caucasian"],
            "profiles": [
                {
                    "provider": "Twitter",
                    "id": "Edwin_Labadie",
                    "url": "http://twitter.com/Edwin_Labadie",
                    "handle": "Edwin_Labadie"
                 }
            ],
            "birth_date" : {
                "month" : 1,
                "day" : 1,
                "year" : 1970
            },
            "postal_addresses": [
                {
                    "primary": true,
                    "address_lines": [
                        "935 Ed Lock"
                    ],
                    "locality": "New Dudley",
                    "region": "MN",
                    "postal_code": "17678",
                    "country": "RU",
                    "address_type": "Home",
                    "location" : {
                        "longitude" : "40.1",
                        "latitude" : "44.5",
                        "accuracy": "Rooftop"
                    },
                    "status": "Verified"
                },
                {
                    "address_lines": [
                         "28160 Wiegand Divide",
                         "Apt 1"
                    ],
                    "locality": "Lake Amarimouth",
                    "region": "GA",
                    "postal_code": "27585-7257",
                    "country": "US",
                    "address_type": "Work",
                    "location" : {
                        "longitude" : "40.1",
                        "latitude" : "44.5",
                        "accuracy": "Rooftop"
                    },
                    "status": "Verified",
                    "primary": false
                }
            ],
            "_links": {
                "curies": [{ "name": "osdi", "href": "http://api.opensupporter.org/docs/v1/{rel}", "templated": true }],
                "osdi:question_answers": {
                    "href": "http://osdi-prototype.herokuapp.com/api/v1/people/23/question_answers"
                },
                "self": {
                    "href": "http://osdi-prototype.herokuapp.com/api/v1/people/23"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "family_name": "Parker",
            "given_name": "Walker",
            "additional_name": "Jannie",
            "origin_system": "OpenSupporter",
            "identifiers": [
                "osdi:24"
            ],
            "email_addresses": [
                {
                    "address":"[email protected]",
                    "primary": true,
                    "address_type": "Work"
                }
            ],
            "gender": "Male",
            "gender_identity": "Male",
            "party_identification": "Democrat",
            "source": "architecto",
            "ethnicities": ["African American", "Hispanic"],
            "profiles": [
                {
                    "provider": "Twitter",
                    "id": "Parker_Walker",
                    "url": "http://twitter.com/Parker_Walker",
                    "handle": "Parker_Walker"
                }
            ],
            "birth_date" : {
                "month" : 1,
                "day" : 1,
                "year" : 1970
            },
            "postal_addresses": [
                {
                    "primary": true,
                    "address_lines": [
                        "22184 Vernie Cove",
                        "Apt 1"
                    ],
                    "locality": "Rowemouth",
                    "region": "JP",
                    "postal_code": "74895",
                    "country": "RU",
                    "address_type": "Home",
                    "location" : {
                        "longitude" : "40.1",
                        "latitude" : "44.5",
                        "accuracy": "Rooftop"
                    },
                    "status": "Verified"
                },
                {
                    "address_lines": [
                        "7485 Rashad Pine"
                    ],
                    "locality": "Brandynview",
                    "region": "PR",
                    "postal_code": "76221-3163",
                    "country": "US",
                    "address_type": "Work",
                    "location" : {
                        "longitude" : "40.1",
                        "latitude" : "44.5",
                        "accuracy": "Rooftop"
                    },
                    "status": "Verified",
                    "primary": false
                }
            ],
            "_links": {
                 "curies": [{ "name": "osdi", "href": "http://api.opensupporter.org/docs/v1/{rel}", "templated": true }],
                 "osdi:question_answers": {
                    "href": "http://osdi-prototype.herokuapp.com/api/v1/people/24/question_answers"
                 },
                 "self": {
                    "href": "http://osdi-prototype.herokuapp.com/api/v1/people/24"
                 }
            }
        }
    ],
    "osdi:taggings": [
          {
            "added_at":"2014-03-01 00:00:00",
            "tag":
              {
                "name":"labor",
                "description":"this person is a labor supporter",
                "created_at":"2014-01-01 00:00:00",
                "modified_at":"2014-02-28 11:23:23",
                "originating_system":"Voter Labs",
                "_links" : {
                  "items" : {
                    "href" : "api/v1/people/tag/labor",
                  }
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "added_at":"2014-03-01 00:00:00",
              "tag":
              {
                "name":"reproductive-rights",
                "description":"this person supports a right to reproductive choice",
                "description":"this person supports a right to reproductive choice",
                "created_at":"2014-01-01 00:00:00",
                "modified_at":"2014-02-28 11:23:23",
                "originating_system":"Voter Labs",
                "_links" : {
                  "items" : {
                    "href" : "api/v1/people/tag/reproductive-rights"
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          ],
        },
    "_links": {
        "curies": [{ "name": "osdi", "href": "http://api.opensupporter.org/docs/v1/{rel}", "templated": true }],
        "self": {
            "href": "http://osdi-prototype.herokuapp.com/api/v1/people"
        },
        "osdi:question_answers": {
            "href": "http://osdi-prototype.herokuapp.com/api/v1/question_answers"
        },
        "osdi:find": {
            "href": "http://api.opensupporter.org/api/v1/people?$filter={odata_query}",
            "templated": true
        }
    }
}