[open-development] FW: [CrisisMappers] Humanitarian Funding Data now available in XML

Wed Dec 22 15:15:46 UTC 2010

Hi folks,

I thought you might be interested in this  data from OCHA¹s FTS (tracking
humanitarian aid) is now available in XML / RSS form from their main site.

Andrej has shared a few notes below and would welcome any feedback.

With best wishes for Christmas and the new year,

Tariq

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrej Verity <andrejverity at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Humanitarian Funding Data now available in XML
To: crisismappers at googlegroups.com

Hello all,

Back in August, I asked the Crisis Mappers network help me find a way to
pull data out of the Financial Tracking System (FTS - fts.unocha.org
<http://fts.unocha.org> ) in an automatic way to create dynamic charts.  The
big challenge was how to get the data out --- FTS only provided PDF and XLS
formats.  We eventually found a way to scrap the HTML page into a Google Doc
and do some charting from there.

Before, during, and after my deployment to Pakistan, I was pushing the OCHA
section, responsible for the FTS, to open up their data in a format that
people could use.  A couple weeks ago, they launched the XML and RSS feeds
on a staging environment. It is now available on their main site.

I believe that, with this data 'open', various entities should be able to do
some very interesting things.  I am curious to see what comes out in the
coming months.

If you have any feedback about the XML/RSS feeds, please let me know and I
will feed that back to the the developer in a structured way.

Steps to reach to RSS feed page - 

Step 1 - click on the "Make a Custom Table" link - 

Step 2 - Create your query depending on the requirement - contribution or
project based

Step 3 - Once the search results are shown, click on the "click here to
login" link on the top of the search menu items   

Step 4 - After login SAVE the query and visit the " My financial page "   

Step 5 - Under financial page you will see the RSS feed and XML output link
of the save query result. 

Cheers,

Andrej Verity
Information Management Officer
Information Services Section (ISS)
Communications and Information Services Branch (CISB)/OCHA
D-619, United Nations, Geneva

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