[ogdcamp] Fringe workshop on Organisational Identifiers - Sunday 23rd

Wed Sep 7 20:03:43 UTC 2011

Hello Jonathan,

Many thanks. I've set up an Eventbrite page at
http://ogdcamp11-orgidworkshop.eventbrite.com/

Feel free to start circulating.

Chris T: Have you put in the general Open Companies proposal for the main
camp yet? Can you make sure it includes a link to this workshop?

Chris/Theodora: If we wait until next week or so on a blog post - I'm just
waiting to confirm other possible partners (in touch with OrgPedia who are
also doing work in this space).

All the best

Tim

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> This is fantastic Tim! :-)
>
> Yes - please go ahead and set up an EventBrite page, and I'll link to
> this from the satellite events page.
>
> Also can you liaise with Theodora (in cc) to put a blog post on this
> on the OKF Blog? Hopefully we could also cross post this widely - on
> Aidinfo, Sunlight, Open Corporates, etc.
>
> We should also start thinking about target invites. Do you also want
> to put in a proposal for a shorter session (2-4 hour) session on this
> during the camp itself?
>
> http://ogdcamp.org/cfp/
> http://ogdcamp.org/programme/submit/
>
> Very exciting! :-)
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Tim Davies
> <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > It looks like we've got plans together for a fringe workshop on open data
> > around organisational identifiers on Sunday 23rd October. A brief summary
> of
> > the workshop focus is below. Anyone else interested in getting involved
> in
> > this - do let me know.
> > OKF folk: how are we managing registration for fringe events? Should we
> set
> > up an EventBrite etc?
> >
> > Organisational Identifiers Workshop - Sunday 23rd October - Warsaw,
> Poland.
> > Many open data projects would benefit from having a shared and stable way
> to
> > identify organisations within datasets. There are a number of ongoing
> > efforts to collect open data on organisations, or to assign unique
> > indentifiers to organisations. Establishing a universal scheme of
> > organisational identifiers is particularly important for projects such as
> > the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which need to
> identify
> > organisations across many jurisdictions and across sectors (companies,
> > charities, governments, other associations and organisations), covering
> > countries with diverse approaches to, and quality of, official
> registration
> > schemes. This workshop seeks to bring together different initiatives
> working
> > on organisational identifiers to share knowledge and develop shared
> > approaches to creating complementary and compatible access to
> organisational
> > information.
> >
> > The core aims of the workshop are to:
> >
> > Bring together different actors exploring the organisational identifier
> > question: including those focused on companies, charities, government
> > agencies and other forms of organisation.
> > Identify a shared method (standard) for re-using existing identifiers
> (e.g.
> > Company Registration; VAT Registration). This may focus on convergence
> and
> > compatibility between schemes such as the IATI Identifier (a framework
> for
> > Identifiers); Open Corporates URIs (seeking to cover all companies
> > globally); ORGPedia entries (“facilitating the “mashing up” of disparate
> > data sets about the ownership, structure, performance and regulatory
> > compliance of organizations” [REF]); Guidestar Identifier (NGO focussed)
> and
> > other open data sources and initiatives.
> > Identify existing efforts to collect open data on organisations and to
> map
> > together different identifiers (e.g. Corporate groupings; mapping Charity
> > and Company numbers etc.)
> > Identify gaps in current approaches (e.g. how to handle countries or
> > organisation-types with limited registration options available to them;
> how
> > to check the quality of data etc).
> > Develop a shared agenda for action in which partners can each take
> forward
> > complementary efforts to define and use shared organisational
> identifiers,
> > and to build the eco-system of open data available for as many of those
> > identifiers as possible.
> >
> > Registration will open in mid-September. Registration for the Open
> > Government Data Camp is already open at http://ogdcamp.org/.
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