HXL Standards
Guidance
HXL
Humanitarian Exchange Language
HXL is a small, simple standard to make data easier to share and process. No new skills or software are required: just add a row of hashtags to your spreadsheet (or database API output) between the headers and the data rows, and you’re done.
The main core of the HXL standard fits on a field-friendly 10×15 cm (4×6 in) postcard, available in French, English, Spanish, and Arabic.
Information on IM tools for working with HXL-tagged data is available at hxlstandard.org/tools
