Question to the group, should we think about renaming some of the default and older IATI Codelists to be more specific? Over time more vocabularies have been added e.g. UN region codelist. This can can cause confusion as the original OECD DAC region codelist is just called 'region':
(See this here: https://github.com/IATI/IATI-Codelists-NonEmbedded/blob/master/xml/Regi…)
We could change this to Region - OECD DAC, and Region - UN or similar.
To me, if we were to do this aligning it with an upgrade would be sensible.
Reasoning for the change:
- In various IATI search tools (datastore search/d-portal/datastore classic/iati.cloud) have drop down boxes for searching sectors/regions/policy markers etc. But no or little indication of which vocabulary is being used. If we were to get to a point where multiple vocabularies could be searched on, it would be helpful to have useful names in the xml codelists to display.
Hi Henriette Keijzers ! Opening back up this discussion and wondering if you might be able to update us on whether this was incorporated in the new version of the UN data standards?
Hi Sarah, Yes this was included in the 2023 version of the UN data standards. CEB Secretariat published for the first time an Excel with Code lists for UN system-wide reporting. This includes a crosswalk between the M49, list of ODA recipient countries and UN programme countries. See https://unsceb.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/Code%20lists%20for%20UN%…
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