IATI organisation file support

[siemvaessen]

We are looking into CoVe for converting IATI organisation file types, next to the activity file.

We don't see support for this in CoVe (yet?) so we are wondering what your thinking is on implementing such a feature and if you do not have short term plans to do so, we'd be happy to talk about how we could contribute to this.

[Bjwebb]

Yes, support for this doesn't exist yet, and it makes sense to implement this in CoVE.
Our conversion library flatten-tool nearly supports this, it's just missing a way to name the root XML element (iati-organisations). There's an issue for this OpenDataServices/flatten-tool#150

There's also some discussion in this issue - #732 - about how CoVE might auto detect organisation spreadsheets from the Meta tab.

We have no short terms plans to do anything on this, so would by happy to see you contribute.

[siemvaessen]

Thanks @Bjwebb. On the library flatten-tool, any ETA on delivery?

And, where should we look for relevant code in CoVe on the org file detection yet?

[Bjwebb]

Sorry for the delay on this, I had a long weekend away at FOSDEM.

We don't have an ETA on that flatten-tool issue atm, but it should be fairly straightforward, so something we can slot into our backlog. How quickly are you hoping to get this functionality?

For the CoVE the changes need to happen in a few places. I'm thinking a call might be useful to talk over these?

[siemvaessen]

Hi @Bjwebb - delay in answering. Will CoVE support this in Q2 this year? We'd be happy to contibute, but I'd first like to find out where CoVE now stands with org.file support. We could on the base what is out there continue building.

[Bjwebb]

We don't currently have this on our roadmap, but we'd definitely be happy to support you to do this.

[siemvaessen]

check. Closing this ticket then.

[andylolz]

Any chance of reopening this issue? I’d also find org file support useful. Thanks!

[andylolz]

Thanks for reopening, @Bjwebb!

we'd definitely be happy to support you to do this.

I don’t know how far this invitation extends?! But OpenDataServices/flatten-tool#201 is my first blocker. Can I get a sense of whether / when it will be reviewed / merged? Thanks!

[Bjwebb]

Thanks, I'll try and take a look at that this week.

[siemvaessen]

Bumping this up. @Bjwebb any updates on this? We'd be happy to assist, seeing we need it :-) so let me know, also happy to setup a brief call for specs so we can continue.

[andylolz]

I started making progress on this (with OpenDataServices/flatten-tool#201), but it transpired that to do it properly was a bigger job than I’d originally anticipated.

It turns out it’s sort of helpful to get roundtripping working correctly first, and then to remove hard-coded assumptions that we’re dealing with an activity file.

Next up on my list is: OpenDataServices/flatten-tool#176