Thanks very much Kate for the quarterly update perhaps worth posting on the forums too?
IATI Technical Team In it I learnt that the new datastore will access data from the validator API, not directly from the registry. This suggests that the registry and the datastore could end up with different data i.e. a query via the registry to see how many active activities are there in country X could be different from the same query via the new datastore? Is this correct or have I missed something? If so, is one of them (registry API, validator API, datastore API) going to be ‘official’?
As far as I understand it from previous discussions, that can be the case if the data does not validate against the XSD. But the same data will also be unusable when directly retrieving them based on the info from the registry.
And it also good to remember that the registry itself does not contain data. It just refers to the URL’s where IATI publishers place their datasets. From that point of view there can not be a difference between the DS and the registry (since the registry is not a database). Basically the registry accepts any kind of rubbish. By definition the DS, being a proper database, can not do that.