Hi,
Please can I ask how other people handle the codelists that are not directly mirrored by IATI? For DAC5 etc we (a computer) can pull them directly, but for e.g. the Humanitarian sectors/clusters, the IATI codelist links to a webpage where you can download them as a csv - of course we can write a scraper to locate the CSV and download it, and then deal with the import - but this could easily break and is reliant on a non IATI third party.
Any tips for how everyone else handles this? Any pointers to why some codelists are integrated (therefore higher class IATI citizens) and others are not?
Thanks a lot,
Matt
matmaxgeds Ideally we would not have to replicate any of the external codelist but historically we have done so for the OECD DAC and a few others. We have done this mainly for convenience and accessibility of users.
We are unable to maintain and replicate all external codelists. It is the responsibility of the codelist providers to make sure they are up-to-date and easily accessible to users via the URLs they have provided and we link to on the IATI page.