The new IATI Validator is open for public testing
Cross posting from our Data4Development news:
With the start of public testing of the new IATI Validator, we like to briefly look back at how we got here, and our vision for the future.
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The new official IATI Validator
While I was on holidays, my colleagues wrote a little announcement at the Data4Development site to accompany the update by the IATI Secretariat about our work:
[Originally posted by Jesse Burns at the Data4Development website]
The last few months, Data4Development, especially Rolf Kleef, has been working on IATI’s new official Data Validator. In the fall, the new validator will finally launch and help organisations check the quality of their IATI publications more easily!
The state of open data in the development sector
For completeness, I copied my post from the Data4Development site:
The State of Open Data (Davies et al., 2019)1 is an extensive report about “all things open data”. Chapter 5 deals with open data for development assistance and humanitarian action, and highlights the crucial chicken-and-egg problem we see as well: