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Documents
Definition
Within the IATI organisation standard any number of links to relevant documents can be declared using:
document-link
- a categorized link to an external document.
Considerations
When using the IATI organisation standard to declare documents, the following should be considered:
In the IATI organisation standard, documents that relate to the organisation/agency would be linked to.
iati-activity
specific documents are published via the IATI activity standard.All
document-link
should be presented in the form of URLs (eg: http://example.org/exampledocument.odt)The URL must resolve to a valid internet address that provides direct access to the document in question.
Attention should be paid by the publisher to any links that become obsolete.
The same document can be presented in different languages via separate
document-link
elements.For every document presented either a
title
orcategory
is expected (or both).The
title
element can be repeated for different languages, regardless of the language of the actual document.The free-text instances of
title
should avoid use of text in CAPITALS, where possible.For document
category
in the IATI organisation standard, it is expected that theDocumentCategory
code would be have the B prefix.DocumentCategory
code A documents should only be reported if there is a good reason for the document not to be linked to a specificiati-activity
.Using the
format
attribute helps inform what to expect from the document.Use of the
format
must be accompanied by a code on theFileFormat
codelist.