Unlocking the Potential of Aid Information

Questions about the report

Licensing

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• Do you agree with Recommendation 1? The recommendation states that: Aid information should be legally open. The standard should require that information is published under terms which allow reuse for any purpose (including commercial). In particular material should be published under a license or legal tool that is compliant with the Open Knowledge Definition, such as a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license for content or the Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) or CC0 for data?

• 0 Should IATI attempt to propose one standard licensing model for aid data? How feasible is this? What are the likely constraints? Which license should we use?

• 0 Should the licensing model be sharealike? Attribution?

• 0 Should the licensing model allow for commercial use of the data?

Data formats

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• Do you agree with Recommendation 2? The recommendation states that: Aid information should be technically open. The standard should require that raw data is made available in bulk with any relevant schema information. Material should be published in a format (i) which is machine readable and (ii) for which the specification is publicly available and freely usable. For example, text should be made available in HTML or XML and data should be made available in CSV or XML

• 0 Do you agree with the proposal to publish data as raw data in a file, with an API being an optional extra?

• 0 Should we also define standards for APIs?

• 0 Which file format should we adopt for data? Or should we allow for different options?

• 0 Do you agree with suggestion that data should be published in simple formats such as txt and csv?

• 0 How important is having aid data available as RDF / triple stores, or will this present a barrier to use the data?

• 0 What format should we recommend for documents?

• 0 Are there existing standard data formats / schemas we should use? (e.g. XBRL)

• 0 How should data sets be published? By country? By sector? A big data set for all donor data?

Finding Data

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• Do you agree with Recommendation 3? The recommendation states that: Aid information should be easily findable. The standard should require that aid organisations add their knowledge assets to a registry with some basic metadata describing the information

• 0 Do you agree with decentralised publication of data?

• 0 What are the lessons from data.gov.uk?

• 0 What metadata do we need for the datasets in the registry?

• 0 Fixed taxonomy vs. Folksonomy