Resource Contracts

	Resource contracts is a database of mining, oil and pretroleum contracts from all around the world
Home page	http://www.resourcecontracts.org/
Approach	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.
Phase	Beta version
Tags	extractives, mining, resources, land, contracts, companies, legal, oil, and petroleum
Practices	Organise
Partners	The Natural Resource Governance Institute, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, and the World Bank Governance for Extractive Industries program.

Thematic Focus	Extractives
Issue addressed	Tracking the legality of contracts
Geographic Focus	World

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

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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

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 4 Alexa: 14634500 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 28 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: 32/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Some Offline Audience Reached : Outcome : Last updated : Oct 8, 2015 Attempts against the project : /

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 :

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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 : true Open Data : false Budget : Medium Project Contracting : Single Delivery Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning :

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

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Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : Documents Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : External Sources Data Collection : Data Verification : Corroborated Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Partial Ethical Publishing : Signed project Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : false