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Research how Policy Marker functions #23

Closed stevieflow closed 7 years ago

stevieflow commented 8 years ago

We can observe that the Humanitarian reporting addition to IATI includes some use of the Policy Marker function, by adding a Vocabulary to the codelist (although see: https://github.com/IATI/IATI-Codelists/issues/94 )

More widely, it is useful to understand how policy-marker works within the standard, as it has (to put it simply) two variables. This - quite literally - means twice the "control" that a single sector classification has

(NB: policy marker codes are embedded codelists, even though they are derived from OECD DAC sources (partly due to structural differences, I think)

These two variables are:

With the addition of a vocabulary attribute to override the OECD-DAC derived codelists - this could be of relevance for more complex Ag classifications, potentially

That is technically / structurally how things work. More policy / user insight would be needed

lgrino commented 8 years ago

In case it's helpful at all, here is the guidance from the DAC on policy markers (see annexes 17 and 18). Though the humanitarian extension seems to have made use of the policy marker, I don't think this is the best route for us to pursue (it would seem to impose a greater burden on publishers, who would need to refer to both an IATI and OECD DAC policy marker codelist).

timgdavies commented 7 years ago

Based on this research and feedback, we are not proposing use of policy-markers for OpenAgFunding.