OpenCorporates

	OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies in the world
Home page	http://opencorporates.com/
Approach	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
Phase	Released
Tags	database, corporate interests, open corporates, and world
Practices	Publish

Project Start Date	2010
Launch Date	2010
Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Finance
Issue addressed	Tracking corporate entities
Geographic Focus	World

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Query	true
Lists	true
Network Visualisation	true
Raw Data	true

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

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : International Twitter : (3437 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 6 Alexa: 33488 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 : Last updated : 22/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /

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 : Open Source : true Open Data : true Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : Sustainability Planning : Dynamic

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Collect

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : List Ethical Collection : Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Crowdsourced Data Collection : Data Verification : Corroborated Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Open Ethical Publishing : Signed project Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : API