Documents¶

Definition¶

Within the IATI organisation standard any number of links to relevant documents can be declared using:

When using the IATI organisation standard to declare documents, the following should be considered:

In the IATI organisation standard, documents that relate to the organisation/agency would be linked to. iati-activity specific documents are published via the IATI activity standard.
All document-link should be presented in the form of URLs (eg: http://example.org/exampledocument.odt)
The URL must resolve to a valid internet address that provides direct access to the document in question.
Attention should be paid by the publisher to any links that become obsolete.
If the documents are in different languages, which are available at different URLs, then repeat the document-link element
If the same document has multiple languages within it, then repeat the language element.
For every document presented either a title or category is expected (or both).
The title element can be repeated for different languages, regardless of the language of the actual document.
The free-text instances of title should avoid use of text in CAPITALS, where possible.
For document category in the IATI organisation standard, it is expected that the DocumentCategory code would be have the B prefix.
DocumentCategory code A documents should only be reported if there is a good reason for the document not to be linked to a specific iati-activity.
Using the @format attribute helps inform what to expect from the document.
Use of the @format must be accompanied by a code on the FileFormat codelist.

In version 2.01, the following must also be considered:

In version 2.01 of the IATI Standard, the schema data type used for some data fields where a URL is expected is now set as xsd:anyURI.
Any freetext title must be included in the child narrative element, which can be repeated for different languages.