There is a Docker container that runs the data freshness emailer (https://hub.docker.com/r/mcarans/hdx-data-freshness-emailer/). The code for the implementation is here: https://github.com/OCHA-DAP/hdx-data-freshness-emailer. It has tests with a high level of coverage.
It sends an automated mail reminder to data contributors if the update frequency time window for any of their datasets is missed by a certain amount. We would provide the link to the dataset that needs updating and emails to the same individual for multiple datasets are batched into one so they are not bombarded. When a dataset becomes delinquent then HDX administrators are sent an email so that they can follow up. The flow is as shown below:
29/11/2017 (60 days of runs since overdue emails sent)
SELECT DISTINCT a.id, c.title FROM dbdatasets a, dbdatasets b, dbinfodatasets c where a.id = b.id AND a.run_number > b.run_number and b.run_number > 149 AND a.fresh = 0 and b.fresh = 2 AND a.id = c.id;
137 datasets updated after becoming overdue. Of these:
HOTOSM: 36 (probably failed exports so a valid alert of being overdue)
IDMC: 47 (wrong update frequency, now changed to annual)
InterAction: 36 (wrong update frequency, now changed to live and hence no more overdue emails will be sent)
18 others:
0a2bae2a-9c09-4aa8-bdf5-f66e71512cb1 CBPF Allocations and contributions
283503e7-13de-4528-9e57-a804196eb57a Afghan Voluntary Repatriation 2017
29d1cc01-cc72-4249-ab15-a01b6d10bfe9 CERF Allocations
2f429840-4def-422f-8586-fb321ccbd832 Topline Colombia Figures
342140f2-0d95-4130-a916-9b75868b0b49 Somalia NGO Consortium Topline Figures
56f3ba93-1765-4a59-a8e0-45088a69b728 International migrant stock
5c963b06-2af1-4fd8-8fef-5f702685a191 Percentage of children less than 5 stunted (Female)
6804f230-c2d4-4482-97a1-568dce069051 Total number of people targeted and reached per region and per cluster
830b908d-0ef3-48b1-bb98-4d8495ded760 Zambia-healthsites
a2150ad9-2b87-49f5-a6b2-c85dff366b75 Rohingya Displacement Topline Figures
ab91c8ec-d6e4-4931-8e45-b42e41bf2ec8 Mount Agung Update - Bali, Indonesia
b6fed87c-9e2b-49e4-8bea-cbfea54238fb Lesotho-healthsites
c12b27ea-5be4-4064-b87c-624cbbb7b1e1 Yemen: Cholera Outbreak Epidemiology Update Data
d1cd6842-dfe1-44c7-a1f5-3769000073af Location of Rohingya Refugees in Cox's Bazar
dce2c3e6-1cbb-4361-8875-b43995fbdf44 Somalia - Water Price Monitoring , August 2017
edb07f53-1023-4bf3-aeb4-d3789fc00642 Total number of children with fever who received treatment with antimalarial
f35ffbfe-428e-4b1f-a41e-1cd31b77e8cc Caribbean Hurricanes: Regional Who is Doing What Where (3W)
fdad1a97-5ffe-42ef-8d60-24e9398f89a8 Total number of reported cases of cholera
In the previous 60 days (before overdue email):
SELECT DISTINCT a.id, c.title FROM dbdatasets a, dbdatasets b, dbinfodatasets c where a.id = b.id AND a.run_number > b.run_number and b.run_number > 89 and b.run_number <= 149 AND a.fresh = 0 and b.fresh = 2 AND a.id = c.id;
94 datasets updated after becoming overdue.