Creating Public Value by Democratizing the Ecosystem of Human Service Providers

Abstract

Human service providers play a critical role in improving well–being in the United States. However, little is know about (i) how service seekers find the services they are looking for by navigating among available service providers, and (ii) how such organizations collaborate to meet human needs. In this paper, we report the first outcomes of our ongoing project. Specifically, we first describe a data acquisition engine, designed around the particular challenges of capturing, maintaining, and updating data pertaining to human service organizations from semistructured Web sources.

Year of Publication
2019
Conference Name
Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference
Date Published
01