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

Thu Dec 23 18:57:12 UTC 2010

Fantastic news! Thanks for letting us know Tariq.

I wonder if someone from the project might be interested in
registering this on CKAN.net, with any relevant details of download
URLs / legal statements / etc?

http://ckan.net/package/new

All the best,

Jonathan

2010/12/22 Tariq Khokhar <tariq.khokhar at devinit.org>:
> Hi folks,
>
> I thought you might be interested in this – data from OCHA’s 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
>
> Email: verity at un.org
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