Resources are the fundamental unit of information that is gathered and shared on Nexus211.
There are several key concepts:
Service
A service refers to a social service. The AIRS taxonomy provides a detailed multi-level classification system for services that helps provide a guide to the full range of services that exist. Each service is tagged with a taxonomy term.
Site
A site refers to a location where a service is provided. It could be a physical site, with a geographical address, or a virtual site (like a website) with an Internet address.
Resource
A resource is a specific service provided at a specific site.
Each resource may have information associated with it that is specific to the service-site pair it represents. For example, the service at the site may only be provided on certain days of the week, or it may have a particular phone number for referrals. That detail would be associated here, at the resource level, and would "override" less specific information that may exist at the site or service level.
A profile may be referred to a resource as part of a transaction.
Agency
An agency is an entity that provides resources. That is, it provides one or more services at one or more sites.