Open Contracting ID (OCDS ocid)
ID ocds_ocid
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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Identifier of a contracting process in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). It joins a publisher prefix and the publisher's own identifier of the process. The prefix is "ocds-" followed by six random lowercase letters or digits assigned to the publisher; the local part has no fixed format. The ocid is case-sensitive and links all releases about one procurement process.
- Categories
- Government related, Finances and banking
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^ocds-[a-z0-9]{6}-.+$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| ocds-b5fd17-602bd466-c6e3-4b23-95de-e99b3e0feed6 | UK Contracts Finder release |
| ocds-87sd3t-OM-DGRMSG-004-13 | example from the OCDS documentation |
| ocds-b5fd1-123 invalid | prefix has five characters |
Sources
- doc: https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/schema/identifiers/
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24534540
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ocds_ocid - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/government/ocds_ocid.yamlon GitHub