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GHO Metadata link: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.metadata
GHO Codelist example "Action area": http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.metadata.ALCACTIONAREA?lang=en (also available as XML and JSON as download)
We can use the existing WHO queries as an approximation. The queries can be customised and made through the API.
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http://apps.who.int/gho/athena/xmart/DATAPACKAGEID/2016-05-11?format=xml&profile=text&filter=COUNTRY:SLE (results in csv, NOT in XML!)
The ultimate goal for IDDO is being able to map a new outbreak.
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Task for a subgroup is to go through the column heads on Fernando's spreadsheet and to redescribe them in DCAT or where necessary another specification.
Infectious disease outbreak: population density, environmental factors, vectors.
Desideratum for a platform that allows this. Characterise the datasets that could be relevant to allow this.
Predicting ebola outbreak would require land-use data, bat population data; predicting spread of outbreak would require data relating to human to human interaction, movement etc. Population movement, transport, social practice.
Issues about locating datasets of re