Ministry of Foreign Affairs

[caprenter]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs is coming up as Funder. I think it's the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sweden, but the interface/data is not making this clear.
See for example
http://aidview-dev.herokuapp.com/activities?Funder=SE-2&Country=BW&view=list&orderby=name&p=3

[siwhitehouse]

The relevant activity file in the api is

http://datadev.aidinfolabs.org/xquery/woapi.xq?ID=SE-6-A5407054&search=&start-date=&end-date=&start=1&pagesize=1000&result=full&callback=&corpus=test&test=yes

which shows the Funding org as:

< participating-org role="Funding" ref="SE-2" type="10" iati-ad:org="SE-2" iati-ad:funder="SE-2">Ministry of Foreign Affairs< /participating-org>

The original iati file has this:

< participating-org role="Funding" ref="SE-2" type="10">Ministry of Foreign Affairs< /participating-org>

So, is this an issue with the data, the API or AidView?

[caprenter]

TBH - this could be a codelist issue.

Picking out SE-2 in this list http://iatistandard.org/codelists/organisation
gives the same data

[siwhitehouse]

The full < participating-org>' from that file is:

< participating-org role="Extending" ref="SE-6" type="10" iati-ad:org="SE-6">
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
< /participating-org>
< participating-org role="Funding" ref="SE-2" type="10" iati-ad:org="SE-2" iati-ad:funder="SE-2">Ministry of Foreign Affairs</participating-org>
< participating-org role="Implementing" ref="Public sector Misc" iati-ad:org="Public sector Misc"/>
< participating-org role="Accountable" ref="Misc" iati-ad:org="Misc"/>

So, SIDA are reporting that they are the extending organisation and they are funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That Se-2 refererence in the codelist could maybe do with qualifying that it is the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Is that what you meant? And have I just written it in the most long-winded way possible.....?

[caprenter]

yes!

[siwhitehouse]

We need to fix the codelist. Not an issue for AidView to resolve.

[KitWallace]

Well I suppose I could update the OrganisationaIdentifier list to change the name of SE-2 from Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an adhoc solution, but if you look through the full list , you will notice that the government names are mostly unqualified by country and hence ambiguous, so this issue is really one of data quality in that reference list. I could process the list using the country code to append a country name - hence Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sweden) . However the country name is not uniformly omitted so some names might look a bit strange. I've created such a list as version 1.2 (draft)

http://datadev.aidinfolabs.org/data/codelist/OrganisationIdentifier/version/1.2/lang/en

What do you think?

[siwhitehouse]

I agree with your comments on this Chris. I think it adds clarity, but it does look a bit odd when the country is already in the name.

I suspect that this is something that ought to go to TAG. I've emailed Kim, Bill and Simon to take a look at this and give us their opinion.