1.03 Region vocabulary

[KitWallace]

A region vocabulary has been introduced, adding the UN region vocabulary to the default DAC vocabulary.

However adding a new vocabulary will create problems if the Region facet is to remain in AIDVIEW . In addition we would need:

• a separate UN region coding list
• a decision on which region list should be used as the reference list for the purposes of querying and viewing
• a process to map codes to a common codelist

the crossref to the IATI community is

http://support.iatistandard.org/entries/21180287-Countries-and-Regions

[KitWallace]

I do have some resources for this, notably:

http://opencirce.org/data/tables/UN_Region-Continent.xml

based on scraping http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm

and http://opencirce.org/data/country-DAC-UN.xml

showing both codes by country DAC based on Mark Broughs data and is incomplete (most of Europe missing)

[KitWallace]

http://opencirce.org/data/country-DAC-UN.xml now completed for all countries allocated a UN region - based on my assumptions so will need checking

[KitWallace]

I added some comments to http://support.iatistandard.org/entries/21180287-Countries-and-Regions

[KitWallace]

I see http://support.iatistandard.org/entries/22899482-Recipient-Region-should-allow-many-vocabularies-to-be-used-to-describe-it

is the topic for inclusion in 1.03 rather than the one I commented on.