iati-identifier

Definition

A globally unique identifier for the activity.

This MUST be prefixed with EITHER the current IATI organisation identifier for the reporting organisation (reporting-org/@ref) OR a previous identifier reported in other-identifier, and suffixed with the organisation’s own activity identifier. The prefix and the suffix should be separated by a hyphen “-“.

Once an activity has been reported to IATI its identifier MUST NOT be changed in subsequent updates.

Rules

The text in this element must be of type xsd:string.

This element must occur once and only once (within each parent element).

1.1.3: The activity identifier must be different to the organisation identifier of the reporting organisation.

1.1.21: The activity identifier should begin with your IATI organisation identifier (either the current IATI Organisation identifier for the reporting organisation or a previous version included in other-identifier element) followed by a unique string for the activity separated by a hyphen

1.3.1: The iati-identifier should not start or end with spaces or newlines.

1.3.13: The iati-identifier must not contain any of the symbols /, &, | or ?.

Example Usage

Example iati-identifier of an iati-activity.

Example uses a concatenation of the reporting-org identifier AA-AAA-123456789 and the internal activity identifier ABC123.

  <iati-identifier>AA-AAA-123456789-ABC123</iati-identifier>

Developer tools

Find the source of this documentation on github:

• Schema

• Extra Documentation