OpenCorporates
- Logo
OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies in the world
- URL
- http://opencorporates.com/
- Keywords
- database, corporate interests, open corporates, world,
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2010
- Launch Date
- 2010
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Finance
- Issue addressed
- Tracking corporate entities
- Geographic Focus
- World
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- yes
- Network Visualisation
- Yes
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- yes
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
OpenCorporates exists to make information about companies and the corporate world more accessible, more discoverable, and more usable, and thus give citizens, community groups, journalists, other companies, and society as a whole the ability to understand, monitor and regulate them.
- Approach (How?)
- OpenCorporates are building an open database of all the corporations in the world, using basic company data from ScraperWiki alongside data from multiple other governmental sources and community generated content
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- Chrinon Ltd
- Publisher
- Chrinon Ltd (UK)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- International
- yes (3437 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 6 Alexa: 33,488 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 58/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 80/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Very High
- Offline Audience Reached
- International
- Outcome
- N/A
- Last updated
- 22/10/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- Dedicated
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- N/A
- Open Source
- Yes
- Open Data
- Yes
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- N/A
- Sustainability Planning
- Dynamic
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: https://opencorporates.com/info/licence
- Collect / Collect Data
- https://opencorporates.com/info/licence
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- List
- Ethical Collection
- N/A
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- Crowdsourced
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Corroborated
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Open
- Ethical Publishing
- Signed project
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- API