IATI Transparency Tests

Licence

This file is part of IATI Transparency Tests.

Copyright 2012 caprenter caprenter@gmail.com

IATI Transparency Tests is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

IATI Transparency Tests is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with IATI Transparency Tests. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

functions/pretty_jsopn.php is taken from a comment on php.net so no claims about copyright are made.

Getting Started

Checkout the scripts

Get some data:
You can fetch data from the IATI Registry (iatiregistry.org).
Store each publishers data in it's own directory, which is itself inside a 'data' directory.
e.g.
raw_IATI_xml_data/
raw_IATI_xml_data/dfid
raw_IATI_xml_data/publisher_name
and so on.

Settings

Copy example.settings.php to settings.php and then edit the options.
Create your results directory to store your results in.
You will also need to create:

• csv directory - to save your results in.
• history directory - to save partial results in.
• helpers/CKAN_meta/tmp directory - to store some temporary data
• helpers/CKAN_meta/CKAN_data directory - to store location information about files on the registry

Check your 'helper' files are up to date

The files under /helpers are additional external pre-calculated data files required to do things like:

• map publisher id's to real names
• map languages to countries
• define the tests to be used

You should check that they are up to date before you use them.

Run the scripts

Using php_cli e.g. php transparency_tests.php

Functional Notes

Run the tests in the following order:

• transparency_tests.php - will generate a json file of data giving counts, scores and percentages, etc for a data publisher against their IATI data files.
• format_overview_results_Sig_Other_All.php - generates some total information for all providers grouped in Signatories/Other/All. This data is required by:
• format_all_results_v2.php - generates 2 csv files /csv/Signatories.csv and /csv/Other.csv
• transparency_tests_additional.sh - generates the results for the 'top 4' tests that are a bit more complicated

The final test is on the file updates based on the CKAN registry records.
First you need to create some meta data about the records on the CKAN registry.
cd helpers/CKAN_meta
make sure you have two directories there:
tmp - should be at helpers/CKAN_meta/tmp
CKAN_data - should be at helpers/CKAN_meta/CKAN_data

Then, in the CKAN_meta directory, run
ckan_records_metadata.php - this grabs CKAN data about each file on the Registry and stores it for us. We need this data so we can then fetch the file change history on each one.

Next:
Back in the top level directory, make sure you have created a ./history directory

• history_maker.php grabs the data - this can take quite a while as it needs to pull every file from the CKAN webservice.
  history_assessment.php makes the judgement on how often data is updated and saves it in a file called history.csv
  run:
• history_assesment.php > csv/Timeliness_Files_1.2.csv - !NB the name of this output file is important!

Finally run:

• Final_Results_Sheet.php puts everything above into 2 csv files, one for Signatories, one for Others.

/contrib

This directory contains a number of one off scripts that can be run by php_cli and should be output to csv.
Move the script into the root directory first.

Out dated formats:

• format_results.php - will generate a csv file of results only, grouped into data publisher types (e.g. signatory, NGO's etc)