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

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear all,
this message is part announcement of an open data initiative and part 
call for feedback and support.

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.

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/
3. in an easily parseable format, e.g. RDF or CSV and not PDF

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>.
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.

We started a link collection here (and attached the current status at 
the end of this email)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit
Also we started to collect potential identifiers for linking here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EMqemA1BlqvyOXGLzYbvY0IcBCAhaRd5XgYLMWIxGsA/edit#gid=0

Regards and thank you for any support on this,
Sebastian and Kay

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IaWSSt4_SZVhypvB1QzBlCtBuMQHv-q5Ti0n8xoZFIQ/edit


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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


      URIs (Linked Data/Semantic Web)

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    DBpedia/Wikipedia/Wikidata URIs - http://dbpedia.org

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    LinkedGeoData - http://linkedgeodata.org/


    DownloadableDatasets with Company info (confirmed)

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    VIAF - http://viaf.org/viaf/data/

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    DBpedia - http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/core/

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    Wikidata - http://downloads.dbpedia.org/current/ext/wikidata/

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    LinkedGeoData - http://downloads.linkedgeodata.org/releases/

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    Company Data Index: http://index.okfn.org/dataset/companies/

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        e.g. UK company data:
        http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html


    Portals with no bulk downloads

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    https://opencorporates.com/

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    http://registries.opencorporates.com/


    Portals, we will still need to investigate


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    https://www.wlw.de/

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    https://www.crunchbase.com

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    http://data.crunchbase.com/v3/page/crunchbase-open-data-map-odm

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    http://www.industrystock.de

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    http://www.ebr.org/

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    https://simfin.com/data/browse/companies

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    http://c-lei.org/

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    http://data.imf.org/

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    http://worldbank.270a.info/.html

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    http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/

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    http://www.europages.com/

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    http://www.sec.gov/data

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    http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/industry.html

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    USA: http://www.corporationwiki.com/

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    India: http://www.companywiki.in/

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    Handelsregister: www.Handelsregister.de

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    Creditreform: http://www.creditsafetrial.com/de/?country=DE

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    Bürgel: https://www.buergel.de/en

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    Factiva:
    https://global.factiva.com/factivalogin/login.asp?productname=global

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Interesting Links:

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    German
    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/

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-- 
Sebastian Hellmann
AKSW/KILT research group
Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) at Leipzig University
DBpedia Association
Events:
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Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems) 
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Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, 
http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt 
<http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Thesis:
http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary
http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis