Update: CSV2IATI decommissioning

For general awareness, the Open Ag Partnership is looking at how we can help fill the gap, both the gap left by CSV2IATI’s decommissioning and additional gap created by increased demand from new ag and humanitarian publishers.

As a few examples, Open Data Services are adapting their CoVE platform to IATI with input from Publish What You Fund’s experience; Young Innovations are making some limited enhancements to AidStream, particularly around org identification; and InterAction is making some small additions to its own NGO Aid Map platform to make it slightly more fit-for-IATI-purpose.

However, we don’t expect these relatively small-scale endeavors to completely fill the gap, and there will remain much to be done even with the three providers/tools mentioned above (for instance, additional languages and localization of the UIs, integration with the IATI Registry for a more streamlined user journey, updating with new fields post-2.03 upgrade, etc.).

We’ve had some coordination discussions with the Tech Team and others to keep each other apprised of our activities here, but are still hoping to “crowd-in” some funding for tool developers to completely close the gap.

If you’re interested in picking up where we leave off on any of those tools, please get in touch and we will keep you in the loop.

Following up on Reid Porter ’s post, Ben Webb - IATI Secretariat and Steven Flower do you have an update on how CoVE and IATI Studio are coming along? Do you have a timeframe of when publishers will be able to use these tools to create their xml files?

BUMP for Amy Silcock ’ question. CSV2IATI is due to be decommissioned at the end of March 2018 (according to the website) so this seems fairly pressing.

Would be great to have a update here Steven Flower Rob Redpath (IATI Secretariat) [~379]

In the meantime a couple more tools/services have entered the market

• Spreadsheet2IATI
• ProjectConnect (soon to be added to the IATI website!)

There are still 10 (med-large) organisations using CSV2IATI

Re: IATI Technical Team update, 15th March 2018

IATI Technical Team update

We are decommissioning the publishing tool CSV2IATI in the first week of April.

Amy Silcock can you confirm this means the tool will be SWITCHED OFF, meaning no more access to models/data? Or, is something else planned?

Steven Flower we are turning off the current site. This will stop users from logging in. However, the tech team will still have access to the software and current models/data.

Steven Flower Here’s a dump of all CSV2IATI models, organised by org IDs: https://github.com/andylolz/CSV2IATI-dump

Since CSV2IATI is now readonly, I guess this is the final list.

Hi Amy Silcock - in discussing this, Andy Lulham generated a list of 34 datasets from 12 publishers, that all seem to be published via CSV2IATI - the links are all published on the Registry.

When the tool is switched off, will these datasets (and publishers) be lost too?

John Adams r_clements Roderick Besseling might be interested to see that an important dataset for DFID GEC traceability is included in this corpus.

Hi Steven Flower , for the time-being the datasets will remain as they are, with the same links on the IATI Registry. However, organisations will not be able to log in or update their data by CSV2IATI.

We are in touch with all the organisations on Andy Lulham ’s list, actively supporting and encouraging them to find another process to create and host their data.

As the CSV2IATI tool is now decommissioned this topic has been closed.

All users were informed about the decommissioning and are now prevented from logging in. However, the IATI Technical Team still have access to the site.

If you have any questions please contact the IATI technical team using: support@iatistandard.org