1. Core HXL hashtags

(A cheatsheet of these hashtags is also available on a 4×6 in / 10×15 cm postcard.)

This section lists the suggested core HXL hashtags grouped into five topic areas:

• Places;
• People and households;
• Responses and other operations;
• Crises, incidents and events; and
• General metadata.

2. Suggested attributes

This section contains some suggested attributes for HXL hashtags, to add extra information to hashtags. You are free to use whatever attributes you wish, as long as they meet the syntactic requirements; however, using the suggested attributes here will help to make your data more interoperable.

• Sex- and age-disaggregation (SADD) attributes
• Language attributes
• Classification attributes
• Geographical attributes
• Date attributes
• Impact attributes
• General attributes

3. Changes from Previous versions

Changes from HXL 1.0 beta to HXL 1.0 final:

• Added the new #event and #group hashtags.
• No longer list data types for hashtags (since the attributes can change the suggested type).
• Some clarifications and examples in descriptions.
• Minor changes to suggested attributes (non-normative): 
  • Suggest the use of the +text or +name attributes (as appropriate) when hashtags can sometimes refer to human-readable descriptions (e.g. #sector+name vs +sector+code).
  • Suggest GeoJSON format for the content of #geo+bounds
  • Suggest +type as a possible attribute for #affected
  • Suggest impact attributes for #beneficiary, #inneed, #population, #reached, and #targeted
  • Suggest language attributes for #contact, #indicator, and #operations
  • Suggest +occurred as a possible attribute for #date
  • Suggest +reliability, +count, +sum, +average, +min, and +max as additional possible attributes for #meta
  • Added +label.

Changes from HXL 1.0 alpha to HXL 1.0 beta:

• Hashtags removed: #activity_id, #adm, #adm1_id, #adm2_id, #adm3_id, #adm4_id, #adm5_id, #aff_num, #age, #age_id, #agesex, #agesex_id, #beneficiary_id, #country_id, #crisis_id, #crisis_lnk, #data_lnk, #datatype, #datatype_id, #delivered_num, #email, #females_num, #from_date, #funder, #funder_id, #households_num, #idp_num, #impact1, #impact1_id, #impact2, #impact2_id, #impact3, #impact3_id, #impl, #impl_id, #injured_num, #inneed_num, #lat_deg, #loc_id, #loctype, #loctype_id, #lon_deg, #males_num, #method, #method_id, #method_lnk, #name, #org_id, #origin, #origin_id, #output_id, #people_num, #period_date, #phone, #prog, #prog_id, #reached_num, #refugee_num, #region_id, #report_date, #sector_id, #sex, #sex_id, #shelter1, #shelter1_id, #shelter2, #shelter2_id, #source, #source_id, #status_id, #subsector_id, #targeted_num, and #to_date
• Hashtags added: #affected, #capacity, #cause, #contact, #date, #description, #geo, #impact, #indicator, #inneed, #meta, #operations, #output, #population, #reached, #severity, and #targeted
• Added hashtag attributes to the standard.