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Sources of data about IATI data (metadata!)
| What is it? | An API (application programming interface) for IATI data: ie. a way for applications to communicate with one another. |
| Who is it useful for? | Developers building applications with IATI data, people wanting IATI data in XML, CSV, or JSON. |
| Give me an example of what I can get here… | An XML of all DFID activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| Bear in mind… | If you’ve not used APIs before directly, then there are other places (ie. the CSV query builder) through which you can get files of the data you’re looking for, in an easier way. |
| Where can I go for further guidance? | It’s well documented on the page above, http://datastore.iatistandard.org/docs/api/ |
ie. metadata about what is in the registry – how many datasets, how often certain publishers are publishing their data
IATI Registry API
| What is it? | An API on meta data (ie. data about the data) for IATI data, which returns the data in JSON format. |
| Who is it useful for? | People wanting to build applications about what data is going into the IATI Registry, and where it is from. |
| Give me an example of what I can get here… | Data about DFID’s publishing activities – how often they publish, how much they have published, etc. |
| Where can I go for further guidance? | The IATI Technical Advisory Group discussion list |
IATI Dashboard
| What is it? | It provides statistics, charts and metrics on data accessed via the IATI Registry, generated nightly from the IATI data on the registry. Essentially, metadata on IATI data (data about the data). |
| Who is it useful for? | People wanting to track IATI data – see who is publishing and how much, rather than diving directly into the data itself. Or, for publishers themselves to see the state of data; it can also be a useful tool to point to when talking to publishers about their IATI data. |
| Give me an example of what I can get here… | An overview of how many activities are published to IATI in total, updated daily. |
| Bear in mind… | |
| Where can I go for further guidance? | The IATI Dashboard README and the IATI Dashboard FAQs |
IATI Updates
| What is it? | A site which makes it really easy for you to see how often different organisations are publishing to IATI, and what they have most recently published. |
| Who is it useful for? | People who might be specifically interested in a certain organisation: unlike on the Dashboard, you can search and select by organisation, to see what their average activities are, and via the Revisions option, see what exactly they have recently published. |
| Give me an example of what I can get here… | A list of the most recent files (=’packages’) that the African Development Bank published to IATI. |
| Where can I go for further guidance? | It’s pretty self-explanatory, so no particular guidance documents here. If you have any particular problems, it’s probably easiest to open an issue on the Github repository |