3.1 – Publishing on the web

0 At the very least this means it should be published on the web, linked to by relevant sites and indexed by search engines. This is already the case for a great deal of aid information, and yet it is still far from straightforward to locate. Effort is required to trawl through, analyse and describe documents and datasets.

0 This process could be made easier if aid information were marked with a common piece of code or text that could be searched for. For example, aid information publishers might use a web button or distinctive link or piece of text. Additionally, the resource could be appropriately described using RDF or RDFa. However this still requires using a search engine to trawl for relevant datasets, and the ways in which data can be searched and explored may be limited.