Organizations

Endpoints

• organizations.json, which contains all organizations

Structure:

[
  {
    id: "organizations/little-sisters-of-the-poor",
    type: "Pontifical Institute",
    name: "Little Sisters of the Poor",
    contact: {
      website: "http://littlesistersofthepoor.org/"
    },
    wikipedia: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Sisters_of_the_Poor",
    social: {
      facebook: "https://www.facebook.com/Little-Sisters-of-the-Poor-United-States-1512750945687722/",
      youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtXYBcbkxh7W8v8UR7CgvHQ"
    },
    events: [
      {
        event: "Founded",
        date: "1839",
	founder: "people/jeanne-jugan",
        description: "",
	source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Sisters_of_the_Poor"
      }
    ]
  },
  ...
]

Event types for organizations include

• Founded
• Disbanded

Notes

• Dates throughout take the form YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM (when only the year and month are known), or YYYY (when only the year is known). Dates may be appended with (c.) to indicate that an exact date is not known. We append rather than prepend to avoid issues with sorting by date. Example: “0045 (c.)”.
• The contact object throughout may contain elements including address1 and address2 (mailing address), website (URL), email, phone (with country code), fax (with country code)
• The social object throughout may contain elements including facebook (URL), twitter (handle), instagram (URL), and youtube (URL).

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