Tools
Having access to raw data is important. But there are often common tasks involved in making aid data and information accessible. The tools and shared source code in this section might give you a helping hand when you are developing tools, platforms, visualisations or presentations making use of aid data, particularly IATI data.
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IATI Codelist API
The International Aid Transparency Initiative sets out a wide range of codes to be used within reported Aid Data. The codelist API provides programmatic access to these codes. The IATI …Continue reading
Aid Transparency Barcamp Nepal Storify
Last week, aid information experts and developers got together for Aid Transparency BarCamp Nepal to talk about how aid data and information can make an impact in Nepal. Conversations covered …Continue reading
CSV + Google Refine: the data you want in spreadsheet form
See below for details of how to get the data you need. Summary The IATI XML standard is hard to represent in a simple ‘flat’ spreadsheet structure. Aid activities can …Continue reading
Individual Activity Profile – jQuery and Google Visualisations
Screenshot and Link See an example activity, choose your own activity by identifier, or find activities through the updated IATI Explorer. Summary Building on top of the IATI Explorer Toolkit …Continue reading
IATI Explorer XML Toolkit
Screenshot and Links Many of the features of the prototype Explorer Toolkit have been replaced by IATIExplorer.net which is regularly updated. Other prototype toolkit tools are still available at http://tools.aidinfolabs.org but …Continue reading
IATI Data – Ruby Application – Faceted Browsing
Screenshot and links View the early alpha version here, or check out the Ruby on Rails source code. Summary This early prototype Ruby on Rails application has a ‘package management’ …Continue reading
The IATI Standard Knowledge Base
A lot of the posts here on aidinfo labs focus on use of aid data supplied through the International Aid Transparency Iniative and formatted using the IATI Standard (though aidinfo …Continue reading
