[open-development] OECD Development Assistance Committee Open Data?

Wed Feb 2 11:08:09 UTC 2011

Hi Tim, OCED are struggling a bit on open data licensing I think (but there
might be others on this list more up to date).

Am copying in Brian Hammond just in case he isn’t on this list.

However in terms of the code lists, Jessica Sloan, from AidData, basically
have all lists from their work and will surely be able to help.

Karin

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*Subject:* [open-development] OECD Development Assistance Committee Open
Data?

Hey all

I'm working on a demonstrator tool to explore some of the recently released
DFID IATI (International Aid Transparency Initiative) data - and the IATI
data makes a lot of use of code lists, particularly from OECD's Development
Assistance Committee (http://oecd.org/dac/).

As far as I can tell (and from asking others who have been working to create
the DFID data), the code lists (for Rio Markers; Sector Codes etc.) are not
published by OECD in any easily open form - instead being scattered across
spreadsheets, word documents and PDFs, with somewhat confusing revision
histories (hard to work out if you're working with the most recent version).

OECD also have a significant library of aid data.

Is anyone aware of initiatives in OECD / DAC on open data? Or at least
exposing data in more consistent and structured ways?

It strikes me that for open development data initiatives - having a stable
maintained place for DAC code lists etc - could be pretty useful...

Tim
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