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HXL (Humanitarian Exchange Language)

Metadata Model Humanitarian openly published

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UN OCHA, from their own opening paragraph

What I make of it

Unusual design — hashtags in a spreadsheet header row rather than a schema. Worth writing up.

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Model Details
Steward UN OCHA
Origin International
Layer Metadata Model
Domain Humanitarian
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 3/3. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Open
Assessed 51.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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