This proposal is part of the 2.03 upgrade process, please comment by replying below.
Standard
Activity and Organisation
Schema Object
iati-activities/@publisher-app
iati-organisations/@publisher-app
Type of Change
Addition to Schema
Issue
Knowing what application has been used to generate IATI data is of use for two reasons. Firstly it allows users and publishers to track similarities in data quality issues across publishers. For example a problem that arises in the data of one publisher may well be replicated across all publishers using the same system. Secondly it will allow new publishers to find others who have already generated IATI data from a similar system.
Proposal
- Add attributes iati-activities/@publisher-app and iati-organisations/@publisher-app
- Definition A code describing the application used to publish this file. It must be a valid value in the PublisherApp codelist.
- Occurs 0..1
- Add a new non-embedded PublishApp codelist Initial Values
- 11 - AidStream 12 - IATI Studio 13 - CSV2IATI 51 - Microsoft SQL Server 52 - SAP 53 - Oracle 54 - PeopleSoft 55 - Access Accounts 99 - Other
Standards Day
Agreement that the information would be useful, though more research needs to be undertaken. Is also metadata, so may want to sit in the Registry rather than in the standard.Links
Isn’t this proposal meant to identify the application producing the original IATI dataset (Publish once!). Whatever you do afterwards with an IATI dataset shouldn’t change this.
Since this field describes a technical attribute of how the IATI data was produced and has nothing to do with the content itself, I prefer this information to be part of the metadata in the registry and not of the IATI file itself.
So I would suggest to keep this as simple as possible and do not change the standard, but change the metadata.