Service Point

https://publicschema.org/ServicePoint

draft

A named physical point where an organization delivers a public service. ServicePoint is domain-agnostic: it covers health facilities, schools, water points, sanitation blocks, distribution sites, protection desks, civil registration offices, community centers, markets, libraries, and post offices. A ServicePoint is distinct from a Location (a named administrative or geographic area where the service point sits) and from the Organization that operates it. Location answers "where on the map or in the admin hierarchy?"; Organization answers "who runs it?"; ServicePoint answers "what is the operational facility?" and carries service category, operational status, and the link back to the managing organization.

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Subtypes

HealthFacility

Properties

Property Type Definition
Identity
Service point name string The human-readable name of the service point.
Identifiers concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Classification
Service point type string (service-point-type)
The category of service this point provides (health, education, distribution, WASH, etc.).
Operational status string (facility-operational-status)
Whether the service point is currently operational, partially operational, or non-functional.
Location
Located at concept:Location The administrative or geographic location where this service point sits.
Governance
Managed by concept:Organization
The organization that operates or manages this service point (government agency, NGO, UN agency, private provider).

Evidence

Not yet found in mapped delivery systems.

ServicePoint is newly introduced in PublicSchema and has not yet been mapped against the v1 convergence systems. No mapped social-protection or CRVS delivery system carries a first-class ServicePoint concept today; facility-like data appears as free-text site names or as administrative location entries. Adjacent systems that do model the concept (WHO HeRAMS, EMIS education registries, WASH facility registries, humanitarian logistics service-delivery-point registries) will be surveyed in a follow-up convergence pass, at which point the system_count and external_equivalents are expected to grow.

Standard Equivalent Match
schema.org Place broad
schema.org Place is a geometric entity (any spatial thing with a geo location), whereas PS ServicePoint is a functional/operational entity (a named site where a public service is delivered with a service category, operational status, and managing organization). Every ServicePoint is a Place, but most Places are not ServicePoints.

Referenced by this concept

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