What I make of it
Unusual design — hashtags in a spreadsheet header row rather than a schema. Worth writing up.
HXL (Humanitarian Exchange Language)
Metadata Model
Humanitarian
openly published
Model Details
Steward
UN OCHA
Layer
Metadata Model
Domain
Humanitarian
Status
live
Access
Openly published
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.