Documents

Definition

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

• document-link - a categorized link to an external document.

Considerations

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.
• The same document can be presented in different languages via separate document-link elements.
• 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.