Org ID guidelines - consider giving preference to charity entities

[stevieflow]

The guidance at http://www.threesixtygiving.org/standard/identifiers/#toc-organisation-identifier states that a Companies House number should be used before a charity number (if both are available)

This might need revising, given evidence we have seen in that publishers default to using charity identifiers for grantees.

[ekoner]

Update from @timgdavies:

For interoperability with other data, the company number is ultimately preferable. It also picks out a longer-running status of an organisation (I understand from XXXX that it is possible for company to become a charity, then unregister as a charity, whilst retaining company number - but if a charity converts its underlying legal form it has to change number...)

[stevieflow]

I think we have address this in http://threesixtygiving-standard.readthedocs.io/en/revisions-for-usability/identifiers/ - @timgdavies to check

[morchickit]

@KDuerden - is this reflected now in our guidance?

[mariongalley]

There is publicly available guidance about which Org IDs to use. We don't explicitly say to prefer charity over company number though from what I could see