Publishing documents in IATI

John Adams, DFID

15 May 2012

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Document types

Business Case and Summary

Intervention Summary

LogFrame

MOU/MOU Amendment

Accountable Grant

Annual Review

Project Completion Review

Evaluation Report

Evaluation Management Response

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Operational projects

Stats

830 documents covering

555/3264 projects (hierarchy 1)

API: http://projects.dfid.gov.uk/iati/document/3349687

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Publication Rules

Content Type

Saved as a Record

Project Folder

Document Type

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Principles

Automate

Integrate

Protect

Document extraction processGenerate project list

Extract project data

Extract document metadata

Extract documents

Publish data &

documents

ARIES Data MartQuest

(document system)

IATI

Lessons & challenges• Risk of getting the rules wrong• Project staff understanding what they need to doAutomation

• New document templates prepared for publication• Are all the documents ready for publication?Quality

• Sensitive: names, private project details• Exclusions: security, commercial, international relations

Sensitive data/ Exclusions

• Analysis to know what we’re missing• League tablesCompliance

• Picking up the latest document versionKeeping up to date

• Intervention Summaries in national languages• Challenges in getting documents translated.Languages

• Start small, build up.Don’t underestimate time needed!

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