@type description about iati-schemas

[bill-anderson]

Yes.
"A coded attribute describing the type of entity described by the element, and defined by the relevant code list." Or something a little more coherent?

[caprenter]

Because this is in the iati-common schema it is meant to be re-used across many elements, hence the generic description.

If we want more specific information about certain elements or the way the attribute is used with those elements for now you will need to add it in the documentation on the wiki (which will be pulled into the website pages, but will not be in the schema itself)

If we want more useful descriptions within the schema we would need to think about how we did that.

This may be a suggestion for the next upgrade.

[stevieflow]

Yes, I realised that.

My only thought was whether altering this generic case would fix our need in this version anyway? The "generic text" is misleading publishers (perhaps). Is there an example of @type where it can be used in this way, or must @type also refer to a codelist?

[bill-anderson]

Always refers to a codelist

[Bjwebb]

This issue is discussed further in IATI/IATI-Standard-SSOT#14 - I'm closing this issue now because the other one is more up to date.