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IATI JSON Template

Brent Phillips
Brent Phillips • 18 February 2018

Perhaps this is an easy question but has IATI come up with a recommended JSON format for IATI data?

I’m not a JSON expert and I was just consulting a previous topic and I noticed different recommendations on how to format data (IATI XML to JSON converter?).

I’m looking for a best practices style template fully documenting an aid activity file containing multiple activities, and I’m especially curious how hyphens and codelists should be treated?

Application-wise, I’m experimenting with nesting IATI data within a blockchain transaction between a previous-hash, timestamp and a current-hash. I’m curious how the IATI and non-IATI data should/could look in JSON.

Comments (2)

Tim Davies
Tim Davies

I’m aware of two main JSON outputs available right now of IATI data.

(1) The IATI Datastore will provide JSON if given the JSON extension -
e,g. http://datastore.iatistandard.org/api/1/access/activity.json

(2) OIPA provides JSON as it’s default format: https://oipa.nl/api/activities/?format=json

I’m not sure how these JSON renderings compare, and whether there are differences between them - though that would be interesting to analyse.


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