Re: How to link to Companies House (UK) data?

Hello Matt,

As others have said, the predicate you choose depends very much on the 
relationship your trying to make between your 'my:object' and some company.

Here's a concrete example of something other that relates bathing waters 
(beachs/rivers/lakes etc.) to the organisations that are responsible for 
sewerage in the locale of that bathing water.

http://environment.data.gov.uk/doc/bathing-water/ukc2102-03600.ttl

which includes the following triples - modulo namespaces.

    bw:ukc2102-03600  a def-bw:CoastalBathingWater , def-bw:BathingWater ;
             def-bw:appointedSewerageUndertaker
    <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/02366703> ;
             skos:prefLabel                  "Spittal"@en .

    <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/02366703>
             chterms:companyProfile
    <http://business.data.gov.uk/companies/profile/02366703> ;
             skos:prefLabel          "Northumbrian Water Limited"@en .

We could have used a weaker predicate than chterms:companyProfile like 
rdfs:seeAlso which would at best suggests that publisher of this data thinks you 
might also be interested in whatever comes back from 
<http://business.data.gov.uk/companies/profile/02366703> without setting any 
expectation over its form.

BR

Stuart Williams

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On 2017-01-12 13:28, Matt Wallis wrote:
> As a relative newcomer to LOD (first post here), I have a very basic question: 
> How to link from an object specified in RDF to a Companies House URI for data 
> about a particular registered company?
>
> Suppose, for example that I have a class, my:Thing, and that some of these 
> Things are also registered companies. I want to provide a link from an 
> instance of my:Thing to the data held by Companies House.
> Let's suppose that the Companies House URI is 
> http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948.
>
> Is there an existing predicate that I can simply add to my resource 
> description? Like this:
>
>     my:object a my:Thing .
>     my:object predicate <http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/08209948> .
>
> Or do I need to modify the definition of the my:Thing class in order to 
> provide this link? If so how?
>
> An extra requirement is that I don't want the mechanism to be UK-specific. I 
> see from the Companies House data model 
> (http://business.data.gov.uk/companies/docs/data-model-reference.html) that it 
> uses the Registered Organization Vocabulary 
> (https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/) which is not UK-specific. In particular:
>
>     http://business.data.gov.uk/companies/def/terms/RegisteredCompany
>     rdfs:subClassOf http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg#RegisteredOrganization
>
> So I'm hoping that there's a straightforward way for the linkage mechanism to 
> work without it being UK-specific.
>
> In case it is relevant, my:Thing is actually 
> http://purl.org/solidarityeconomics/experimental/essglobal/vocab/SSEInitiative .
> -- 
> Matt Wallis
> Institute for Solidarity Economics
> http://www.solidarityeconomics.org