Themes are how we thematically categorise our documents and organisations. They represent an evolving taxonomy of relevant thematic areas in global development research.
Themes are browsable and have a simple hierarchy which enables a user to explore a thematic area in an easy and understandable way.
Eldis uses Themes to organise its document data. You can see these represented on the Eldis website as Focus Topics.
Fields
| Field Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| archived | A flag indicating if a theme has been archived – new documents or organisations will not be associated with this theme. | |
| cat_level (deprecated) | Position in the hierarchy, starting at 1, the top level -replaced by ‘level‘ | |
| category_path | A human-readable list of the parent category names, delimited with a . (full stop) | |
| children_url | Web-accessible uri for the “children” of this theme | |
| description | A description of the theme, where applicable | |
| level | Position in the hierarchy, starting at 1, the top level | |
| metadata_url | Web-accessible uri for this object | |
| object_id | Unique idenitfier of this theme | |
| object_type | The type of asset, in this case “Theme” | |
| parent_object_array | Details about the parent of this theme |
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| parent_object_id | Unique identifier of the parent to this theme | |
| parent_url | Web-accessible uri for the “parent” of this theme | |
| site | Name of the collection to which this theme belongs | |
| timestamp | Indicates when record was indexed in the API | |
| name (or title) | Name of theme | |
| toplevel_parent_url | Web-accessible uri for the top level “parent” of this theme |
Please note that theme names are not unique. Either the object_id (or path) should be used to identify unique themes.