Re: Are there any datasets about companies? ( DBpedia Open Data Initiative)

Hi I love the idea! thanks for sharing

(I see references to opencorporates, but it uses an API if I'm not wrong?
http://api.opencorporates.com/)

how can someone contribute, apart from suggestiong new sources?
(Sadly  in Italy I can hardly we still lack an open index of companies, and
what we could do is to combine informations from various sources, with many
problems in terms of licences / provenance / etc.)

I suggest to put all the collection of sources directly on github (or
similar) because it could help in managing the various contributions!

Alfredo


2015-11-03 16:17 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Hellmann <
hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>:

> [Apologies for cross-posting]
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> Dear all,
> this message is part announcement of an open data initiative and part call
> for feedback and support.
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> We are considering to work on creating a free, open and interoperable
> dataset on companies and organisations, which we are planing to integrate
> into DBpedia+ and offer as dump download. As we are in a very early phase
> of the endeavour, we would like to know whether there is existing work in
> this area.
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> We are looking for any available datasets which have information about
> companies and other organizations in any language and any country. Ideally,
> the datasets are:
> 1. downloadable as dump
> 2. openly licensed , e.g. CC-BY following the <http://opendefinition.org/>
> http://opendefinition.org/
> 3. in an easily parseable format, e.g. RDF or CSV and not PDF
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> But hey! Send around anything you know, and we will look at it and see
> whether we can make use of it. You can reach us either by replying  to this
> email or send feedback directly to me and Kay Müller
> <kay.mueller@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
> <kay.mueller@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>.
> If you have any private/closed data, please contact us as well. We might
> make use of it to cross-reference and validate public/open data with it. Or
> just learn from it to build a good scheme.
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> We started a link collection here (and attached the current status at the
> end of this email)
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit
> Also we started to collect potential identifiers for linking here:
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> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EMqemA1BlqvyOXGLzYbvY0IcBCAhaRd5XgYLMWIxGsA/edit#gid=0
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> Regards and thank you for any support on this,
> Sebastian and Kay
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> * Open Company Data Open Company Data
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit#heading=h.buuo7dypfd9a>
> Identifiers for companies/organisation
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit#heading=h.qs150ivpio94>
> URIs (Linked Data/Semantic Web)
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit#heading=h.b9yeovqjeglz>
> Downloadable Datasets with Company info (confirmed)
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit#heading=h.7ihxrlrypp14>
> Portals with no bulk downloads
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit#heading=h.a95o85lqil72>
> Portals, we will still need to investigate
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit#heading=h.p50bjh96q3ok>
> Identifiers for companies/organisation Table with identifiers:
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EMqemA1BlqvyOXGLzYbvY0IcBCAhaRd5XgYLMWIxGsA/edit#gid=0>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EMqemA1BlqvyOXGLzYbvY0IcBCAhaRd5XgYLMWIxGsA/edit#gid=0
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> URIs (Linked Data/Semantic Web) - DBpedia/Wikipedia/Wikidata URIs -
> <http://dbpedia.org>http://dbpedia.org <http://dbpedia.org> - LinkedGeoData
> - <http://linkedgeodata.org/>http://linkedgeodata.org/
> <http://linkedgeodata.org/> Downloadable Datasets with Company info
> (confirmed) - VIAF - <http://viaf.org/viaf/data/>http://viaf.org/viaf/data/
> <http://viaf.org/viaf/data/> - DBpedia -
> <http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/core/>http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/core/
> <http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/core/> - Wikidata -
> <http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/ext/wikidata/>http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/ext/wikidata/
> <http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/ext/wikidata/> - LinkedGeoData -
> <http://downloads.linkedgeodata.org/releases/>http://downloads.linkedgeodata.org/releases/
> <http://downloads.linkedgeodata.org/releases/> - Company Data Index:
> <http://index.okfn.org/dataset/companies/>http://index.okfn.org/dataset/companies/
> <http://index.okfn.org/dataset/companies/> - e.g. UK company data:
> <http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html>http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html
> <http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html> Portals with no bulk
> downloads - <https://opencorporates.com/>https://opencorporates.com/
> <https://opencorporates.com/> -
> <http://registries.opencorporates.com/>http://registries.opencorporates.com/
> <http://registries.opencorporates.com/> Portals, we will still need to
> investigate - <https://www.wlw.de/>https://www.wlw.de/
> <https://www.wlw.de/> -
> <https://www.crunchbase.com>https://www.crunchbase.com
> <https://www.crunchbase.com> -
> <http://data.crunchbase.com/v3/page/crunchbase-open-data-map-odm>http://data.crunchbase.com/v3/page/crunchbase-open-data-map-odm
> <http://data.crunchbase.com/v3/page/crunchbase-open-data-map-odm> -
> <http://www.industrystock.de>http://www.industrystock.de
> <http://www.industrystock.de> - <http://www.ebr.org/>http://www.ebr.org/
> <http://www.ebr.org/> -
> <https://simfin.com/data/browse/companies>https://simfin.com/data/browse/companies
> <https://simfin.com/data/browse/companies> -
> <http://c-lei.org/>http://c-lei.org/ <http://c-lei.org/> -
> <http://data.imf.org/>http://data.imf.org/ <http://data.imf.org/> -
> <http://worldbank.270a.info/.html>http://worldbank.270a.info/.html
> <http://worldbank.270a.info/.html> -
> <http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/>http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/
> <http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/> -
> <http://www.europages.com/>http://www.europages.com/
> <http://www.europages.com/> -
> <http://www.sec.gov/data>http://www.sec.gov/data <http://www.sec.gov/data>
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> <http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/industry.html>http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/industry.html
> <http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/industry.html> - USA:
> http://www.corporationwiki.com/ <http://www.corporationwiki.com/> - India:
> http://www.companywiki.in/ <http://www.companywiki.in/> - Handelsregister:
> www.Handelsregister.de <http://www.Handelsregister.de> - Creditreform:
> http://www.creditsafetrial.com/de/?country=DE
> <http://www.creditsafetrial.com/de/?country=DE> - Bürgel:
> https://www.buergel.de/en <https://www.buergel.de/en> - Factiva:
> https://global.factiva.com/factivalogin/login.asp?productname=global
> <https://global.factiva.com/factivalogin/login.asp?productname=global> -
> Interesting Links: - German
> <http://get.torial.com/blog/2014/02/die-besten-quellen-fuer-wirtschaftsjournalisten-teil-1/>http://get.torial.com/blog/2014/02/die-besten-quellen-fuer-wirtschaftsjournalisten-teil-1/
> <http://get.torial.com/blog/2014/02/die-besten-quellen-fuer-wirtschaftsjournalisten-teil-1/>
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> <http://get.torial.com/blog/2014/02/die-besten-quellen-fuer-wirtschaftsjournalisten-teil-2/>http://get.torial.com/blog/2014/02/die-besten-quellen-fuer-wirtschaftsjournalisten-teil-2/
> <http://get.torial.com/blog/2014/02/die-besten-quellen-fuer-wirtschaftsjournalisten-teil-2/>
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> Sebastian Hellmann
> AKSW/KILT research group
> Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) at Leipzig University
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