[BLOG IDEA] Write about Unofficial codelists

[andylolz]

What’s the blog about?

Code for IATI maintains a number of replicated codelists that are useful in conjunction with IATI data.

The following replicated codelists are all used as part of the IATI standard:

• Earmarking Modality (transaction/aid-type vocabulary 3) [English only]
• GLIDE Number (humanitarian-scope vocabulary 1-2)
• Humanitarian Global Clusters (sector vocabulary 10) [English and French]
• Humanitarian Plan (humanitarian-scope vocabulary 2-1) [English only]
• UNSDG Indicators (sector vocabulary 9) [English and French]

These replicated codelists aren’t directly used as part of the standard, but are a useful accompaniment:

• Region M49 [English and French]
• Reporting Organisation [English and French]
• Sector Group [English and French]

All of these codelists are available to view on https://codelists.codeforiati.org (in some cases in both English and French) as well as via the replicated codelists API:
https://codelists.codeforiati.org/api/

Most are maintained automatically, and several of them are updated very frequently:
https://github.com/codeforIATI/Unofficial-Codelists/graphs/contributors

These are used e.g. by Code for IATI Analytics, to show how codelists are used by publishers:
https://analytics.codeforiati.org/codelists.html

What’s the goal of the blog?

Mostly to make technical users aware that these resources exist, since they’re potentially quite useful.