andylolz
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2 weeks ago Hi @eastcoasting, apologies for the delayed response and thanks for your interest in this project.
When the change in #10 was made, this project effectively changed hands. As such, you’re best off raising this issue here: https://github.com/OpenDataServices/iati-data-dump-2
(It’s a bit of a muddle, because the code for the static site still comes from this repo. I reached out to the new owners when I saw your message, but to no avail. I’ve also updated the footer of the site, to try and clarify this a bit.)
I’m afraid I’m not able to help more than that. I agree that the git repo was a useful thing, but unfortunately it outgrew the free limits of GitHub and then of GitLab.
odscjames
Hi - Thank you for this valuable service, I am using the data dump to pull source data for further processing and analysis. When the zip location was switched over (https://github.com/codeforIATI/iati-data-dump/pull/10), the historical archive of data appears to have been lost as this was preserved in the gitlab git history. Is this preserved but not publicly available?
This historical data has been useful in producing fallbacks when files are offline (e.g., Norad's activity XML file link switched recently, but has not caught up), or reconstructing transaction data for organizations that replace values in place (e.g., many of Germany's expenditure transactions). While some of these are obviously issues on the government data provider side, I'd be interested in trying to preserve this resource.