Improve guidance by including more contextual examples and business cases
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A commenter on the IATI Standard version forums recently suggested that:
[There should be] guidance on how to use the fields to answer a given question. What was discussed briefly at the TAG was perhaps a series of notes organized by question, such as:
- How can I find out whether a given activity may be on budget? (By looking at eg type of collaboration, type of aid, disbursement channel etc)
- How can I filter activities to only have those implemented by CSOs? (By disbursement channel, type of organisation)
This is not about the standard per se, but about maximizing use of data. A starting point may be to create a space where users could provide questions they struggle with, and where others could offer suggestions. The FAQ could be captured in How To notes.
This sounds like a very good idea, and may help to encourage more and more sophisticated use of IATI data, as well as help publishers be more confident about the fields they're publishing.
Details on data use can now be found on the IATI website: https://iatistandard.org/en/using-data/. Guidance is to be written on different data use tools.
For now, no further work needed.