Resource Contracts
- Logo
Resource contracts is a database of mining, oil and pretroleum contracts from all around the world
- URL
- http://www.resourcecontracts.org/
- Keywords
- extractives, mining, resources, land, contracts, companies, legal, oil, petroleum
- Project Current Phase
- Beta version
- Project Start Date
- N/A
- Launch Date
- N/A
- Most Recent Update
- Update Frequency
- N/A
- Thematic Focus
- Extractives
- Issue addressed
- Tracking the legality of contracts
- Geographic Focus
- World
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
A searchable database of petroleum, mineral and land contracts
- Approach (How?)
- Resource Contracts enables anyone to investigate and interrogate governemental policies in place in those regions by providing mining and oil contracts to analyse and understand, from different countries.
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- African Legal Support Facility, UK Department for International Development.
- Publisher
- Resource Governance (United States)
- Partners
- The Natural Resource Governance Institute, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, the World Bank Governance for Extractive Industries program.
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- N/A
- (N/A followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 4 Alexa: 14,634,500 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 28 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: 32/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- N/A
- Outcome
- N/A
- Last updated
- Oct 8, 2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- https://github.com/NRGI/resourcecontracts.org
- 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
- Some
- Data Science
- None
- Engineering
- Some
- Design
- Some
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Traditional
- Open Source
- Yes
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- Medium Project
- Contracting
- Single Delivery
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- N/A
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://www.resourcecontracts.org/glossary
- Organise / Get Started
- http://www.resourcecontracts.org/faqs
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Documents
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Corroborated
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Partial
- Ethical Publishing
- Signed project
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- No