# Standard **URL:** https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/c/standard/5.md [Latest](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/categories.md) --- ## [About the Standard category](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/about-the-standard-category/16)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 0
This category is the place to discuss about the 360Giving Data Standard. In here you can: Suggest new fields for the standard Discuss current fields in the standrd Get updated with the stewardship committee meetings an… --- ## [Standard Stewardship committee minutes](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/standard-stewardship-committee-minutes/161)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [8 January 2026 14:06 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/standard-stewardship-committee-minutes/161 "2026-01-08T14:06:04Z")
Hello, Last month we gathered to have the third 360Giving Standard Stewardship committee. You can find the minutes here. If you have any comment or questions about the minutes, please post them as a comment to this thre… --- ## [PATCH: Add human readable currency names, remove out of date JSON Table Schema file and add unique id for schema files](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-add-human-readable-currency-names-remove-out-of-date-json-table-schema-file-and-add-unique-id-for-schema-files/451)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [2 October 2025 14:50 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-add-human-readable-currency-names-remove-out-of-date-json-table-schema-file-and-add-unique-id-for-schema-files/451 "2025-10-02T14:50:38Z")
Hello, The ODS and 360Giving staff teams are proposing 3 PATCH updates to the Standard, which add human-readable currency names, remove an out-of-date JSON Table Schema file, and add unique IDS for schema files. Details… --- ## [PATCH: Update deprecation policy to treat removed fields like any other non Standard fields](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-deprecation-policy-to-treat-removed-fields-like-any-other-non-standard-fields/450)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 August 2025 12:00 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-deprecation-policy-to-treat-removed-fields-like-any-other-non-standard-fields/450 "2025-08-12T12:00:47Z")
Hello, The ODS and 360Giving staff teams are proposing a PATCH update to the Standard which changes the Deprecation Policy. This was approved by the 360Giving Data Standard Stewardship Committee on 2025-06-17 (see paper… --- ## [PATCH - adding country names alongside country codes](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-adding-country-names-alongside-country-codes/432)
**Author:** [@360Giving](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/360Giving)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 May 2025 14:29 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-adding-country-names-alongside-country-codes/432 "2025-05-28T14:29:15Z")
Hello, The ODS and 360Giving staff teams are proposing a PATCH update to the Standard which adds country names to the “Title” column in the countryCodes.csv codelist file. No validation rules are changing, and publishe… --- ## [MINOR - Final Review of Extensions Mechanism update available for comment](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [26 March 2024 14:31 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-extensions-mechanism-update-available-for-comment/417 "2024-03-26T14:31:37Z")
Hi all, This post is to share a Pull Request containing a MINOR update to the 360Giving package schema for review by the Stewardship Committee and 360Giving community. The committee has already approved the a proposal d… --- ## [PATCH - new Extensions information in Metadata documentation](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-new-extensions-information-in-metadata-documentation/420)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [7 March 2024 20:45 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-new-extensions-information-in-metadata-documentation/420 "2024-03-07T20:45:28Z")
Hello, The ODS and 360Giving staff teams are proposing a PATCH update which will result in the following changes to normative guidance: Add a new piece of guidance text to Metadata normative guidance explaining that … --- ## [PATCH - Various housekeeping updates](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-various-housekeeping-updates/419)
**Author:** [@360Giving](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/360Giving)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [25 August 2023 08:13 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-various-housekeeping-updates/419 "2023-08-25T08:13:06Z")
Hello, The ODS and 360Giving staff teams are proposing several PATCH updates which are small housekeeping improvements to the 360Giving Data Standard. They have been incorporated into a single Pull Request along with th… --- ## [MINOR - Final Review of Location Scope update available for comment](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-location-scope-update-available-for-comment/411)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [3 April 2023 13:04 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-location-scope-update-available-for-comment/411 "2023-04-03T13:04:22Z")
Hi all, This post is to share a Pull Request containing a MINOR update to the 360Giving Schema and the 360Giving Standard Documentation for review by the Stewardship Committee and 360Giving community. The committee has … --- ## [MINOR - Final Review of Regranting and Grants to Individuals updates available for comment](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-regranting-and-grants-to-individuals-updates-available-for-comment/410)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [16 December 2022 14:23 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-final-review-of-regranting-and-grants-to-individuals-updates-available-for-comment/410 "2022-12-16T14:23:35Z")
Hi all, This post is to share a Pull Request containing a MINOR update to the 360Giving Package Schema and the 360Giving Standard Documentation for review by the Stewardship Committee and 360Giving community. The commit… --- ## [Updates to the Standard - Grants to Individuals, Regranting and Location Scope](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/updates-to-the-standard-grants-to-individuals-regranting-and-location-scope/408)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [24 November 2022 17:45 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/updates-to-the-standard-grants-to-individuals-regranting-and-location-scope/408 "2022-11-24T17:45:18Z")
Over the past year, 360Giving has been working on proposals to improve the 360Giving Data Standard to enable grantmakers to record grants to individuals, to specify when grants are intended for regranting or describe the… --- ## [PATCH - Update to Governance and Revision Control process text](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-to-governance-and-revision-control-process-text/405)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [8 July 2022 16:25 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-to-governance-and-revision-control-process-text/405 "2022-07-08T16:25:12Z")
Hello, I am proposing a PATCH update which will update the normative guidance about the Governance and Revision Control process text in the 360Giving Data Standard documentation. This text has been written by members o… --- ## [PATCH - update to add normative Meta guidance to Standard docs](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-to-add-normative-meta-guidance-to-standard-docs/402)
**Author:** [@marion.galley](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/marion.galley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [13 May 2022 16:29 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-to-add-normative-meta-guidance-to-standard-docs/402 "2022-05-13T16:29:37Z")
360Giving has developed guidance about metadata in 360Giving Data Standard and how to include this in 360Giving data files. This is a PATCH update which will add normative guidance to the Standard documentation site. Th… --- ## [PATCH - update to design and add new publisher guidance to Standard site](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-to-design-and-add-new-publisher-guidance-to-standard-site/398)
**Author:** [@katherine.duerden](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/katherine.duerden)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [14 December 2021 16:52 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-update-to-design-and-add-new-publisher-guidance-to-standard-site/398 "2021-12-14T16:52:06Z")
360Giving has developed comprehensive online publisher guidance which will be incorporated into the Standard documentation site. The majority of the content is designed as non-normative and so does not come under the ch… --- ## [PATCH - updates to Standard documentation](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-updates-to-standard-documentation/394)
**Author:** [@katherine.duerden](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/katherine.duerden)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [10 December 2021 07:27 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-updates-to-standard-documentation/394 "2021-12-10T07:27:16Z")
A series of updates to guidance text are being proposed to the 360Giving Standard documentation. Summary of proposed changes Changes made to documentation pages, index, Reference and Identifiers. Summary of changes ind… --- ## [PATCH - updates to 360Giving schema and package schema](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-updates-to-360giving-schema-and-package-schema/393)
**Author:** [@katherine.duerden](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/katherine.duerden)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [10 December 2021 07:26 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-updates-to-360giving-schema-and-package-schema/393 "2021-12-10T07:26:58Z")
A series of small changes are being proposed to the 360Giving schema and package schema. Summary of proposed changes Changes to the 360-giving-package-schema.json Update to ‘Issued’ and ‘Modified’ field descriptions t… --- ## [MINOR - Peer Review of Metadata update available for comment](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-peer-review-of-metadata-update-available-for-comment/375)
**Author:** [@katherine.duerden](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/katherine.duerden)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [14 April 2021 16:41 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/minor-peer-review-of-metadata-update-available-for-comment/375 "2021-04-14T16:41:54Z")
Hi all, This post is to share a document setting out a MINOR update proposed to the 360Giving Package Schema and the 360Giving Standard Documentation for review by the 360Giving Standard Stewardship Committee. Once app… --- ## [Equalities Data Taxonomy](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/equalities-data-taxonomy/377)
**Author:** [@Tania](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/Tania)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 December 2020 14:35 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/equalities-data-taxonomy/377 "2020-12-07T14:35:02Z")
As some of you may know, we have been working with external consultants, funders in the DEI Data Group, social justice groups, and grantees, to develop a taxonomy for equalities data. This is really important. Collecting… --- ## [New field: date added to 360](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/new-field-date-added-to-360/362)
**Author:** [@JohnS](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/JohnS)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [16 July 2020 14:08 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/new-field-date-added-to-360/362 "2020-07-16T14:08:01Z")
This field would be useful for knowing which records have been added since the previous download. Auto enter creation date on 360 Giving would suffice. --- ## [360Giving Standard policy - normative and non-normative content](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/360giving-standard-policy-normative-and-non-normative-content/342)
**Author:** [@katherine.duerden](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/katherine.duerden)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [9 March 2020 10:42 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/360giving-standard-policy-normative-and-non-normative-content/342 "2020-03-09T10:42:55Z")
I am pleased to share a new policy that has been approved by the 360Giving Standard Stewardship Committee, at a meeting held on 22 November 2019. This policy aims to provide clear guidance about what content on the 360G… --- ## [PATCH - explaining about the significance of time component in Award Time](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-explaining-about-the-significance-of-time-component-in-award-time/324)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [9 July 2019 16:34 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-explaining-about-the-significance-of-time-component-in-award-time/324 "2019-07-09T16:34:39Z")
Hello all, In the latest Stewardship Committee we discussed noting in the documentation that the time element in Date - Time of Amount Awarded and Transaction time is not significant and that we are doing it to allow ea… --- ## [PATCH - Adding ToR of committee to the standard documentation](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-adding-tor-of-committee-to-the-standard-documentation/323)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [9 July 2019 14:04 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-adding-tor-of-committee-to-the-standard-documentation/323 "2019-07-09T14:04:06Z")
Hi all, We have noticed that the ToR of the committee is not on the standard documentation site. We would like to add them to the site. You can see a version of the ToR here There is one week to comment on this until J… --- ## [PATCH documentation is live and waiting for comments before merging](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-documentation-is-live-and-waiting-for-comments-before-merging/320)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [28 June 2019 12:09 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/patch-documentation-is-live-and-waiting-for-comments-before-merging/320 "2019-06-28T12:09:14Z")
Hello all, In the last Stewardship Committee, we approved the PATCH process for the standard. The documentation is now on the site and it will be great if you can take a look and see if we missed anything. If there are … --- ## [Adding a re-grant field](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/adding-a-re-grant-field/304)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [15 March 2019 14:53 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/adding-a-re-grant-field/304 "2019-03-15T14:53:16Z")
At the moment the standard doesn’t accommodate re-granting - meaning a grant that is given to other organisations to re-grant. This can accumulate in double counting. However, not all re-grants are easy to track, for exa… --- ## [Recipient Organisation Type Field](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/recipient-organisation-type-field/255)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [3 December 2018 15:37 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/recipient-organisation-type-field/255 "2018-12-03T15:37:39Z")
Hello all, We have spotted a bug in the Recipient Organisation Type Field - in it’s JSON version it has a codelist with the values Registered Charity, Registered Company and Community Group. The description of it in the… --- ## [It's time to discuss metadata!](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/its-time-to-discuss-metadata/254)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [20 August 2018 18:27 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/its-time-to-discuss-metadata/254 "2018-08-20T18:27:33Z")
Hello all, Open Data services are working hard on the new registry for 360Giving data, and at the same time they are working on 360Giving metadata. what is metadata? Metadata is information about the data, or data abo… --- ## [We submitted a challenge to the government open standards committee](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/we-submitted-a-challenge-to-the-government-open-standards-committee/253)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [15 August 2018 11:18 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/we-submitted-a-challenge-to-the-government-open-standards-committee/253 "2018-08-15T11:18:03Z")
Hi all, Today I submitted the 360Giving standard as a challenge to the UK government open-standards repo. You can see it here: https://github.com/alphagov/open-standards/issues/63 The next step is as follows: Respons… --- ## [Introducing 360Giving version 1.0!](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/introducing-360giving-version-1-0/229)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [26 June 2018 11:03 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/introducing-360giving-version-1-0/229 "2018-06-26T11:03:26Z")
Hello all, We have some exciting news! The 360Giving Standard is finally in version 1.0! Up until June 2018, the Standard was in “beta version”, meaning that we held it in a state of evaluation so that we could check i… --- ## [ORCID - Should we use these identifiers type as well](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/orcid-should-we-use-these-identifiers-type-as-well/201)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [29 March 2018 12:55 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/orcid-should-we-use-these-identifiers-type-as-well/201 "2018-03-29T12:55:13Z")
We all know that identifiers are close to our heart and help us to identify entities better. There is ORCID, which is, in short, an identifier for a person (which is more common to use in the academic / scientific world… --- ## [Planned Dates:Duration (months) field](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/planned-dates-duration-months-field/188)
**Author:** [@mor.rubinstein](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/u/mor.rubinstein)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [19 March 2018 15:51 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/planned-dates-duration-months-field/188 "2018-03-19T15:51:06Z")
Hello! After working on question that was related to the field of duration, I found out that the type of it is String. I assume it was done for programs that have estimated durations (i.e 12-16 months). However, from wo… [Next page](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/c/standard/5.md?page=1)