[Open-companies] New Microsite on Corporate Identifiers

Wed Nov 2 21:51:59 UTC 2011

Chris --

Meet Sean O'Riain of DERI, Galway -- all things semantic and XBRL.

There is an XBRL international task force organizing on Comparability and Sean 
is doing some good work on linked-data.  We should see about collaboration 
opportunities.

 All the best,
Patrick
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From: Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>
To: Patrick Slattery <patrick at canopach.com>
Cc: Kaitlin Lee <klee at sunlightfoundation.com>; open-companies at lists.okfn.org
Sent: Wed, November 2, 2011 5:43:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Open-companies] New Microsite on Corporate Identifiers

Patrick

Thanks for sharing that link. Wasn't aware of it -- we were obviously 
channelling your ideas when we built theOpenCorporates URI structure ;-)

I'm wondering if much work had been done turning XBRL into linked data, and also 
whether there was an ontology for relationships between corporate entities (and 
also actions between companies -- mergers, splits, takeovers, etc). We touched 
on this a little at the organisational identifiers workshop in Warsaw, but 
really only skimmed the surface

Kind regards

Chris

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On 2 November 2011 20:47, Patrick Slattery <patrick at canopach.com> wrote:

>Kaitlin --
>
>Great.  Thanks.  Really like it.
>
>BTW -- we led and documented a workshop at a joint W3C and XBRL conference in 
>Arlington, VA in 2009 on :The Entity Problem for Semantic Use of Financial 
>Information on the Web: Global Open Source Entity Reference."   Here is the URI: 
>http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/naming.html   Feel free to reference it on your 
>site.
>
>
> All the best,
>Patrick
>
>
>
>
>
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 From: Kaitlin Lee  <klee at sunlightfoundation.com>
>To: open-companies at lists.okfn.org
>Sent: Wed, November 2, 2011 4:40:12 PM
>Subject: [Open-companies] New Microsite on Corporate Identifiers
>
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>
>We've just launched a micro-site that summarizes some of our research on the 
>problem of unique corporate identifiers.
>
>
>http://sunlightfoundation.com/sixdegrees/
>
>
>The site is meant to be an introduction to the problem and also includes a 
>visualization to help show how and why DUNS numbers are not up to the task. 
>Feedback is welcome, and if you'd like your related work to be added to the 
>resources page, please send me a link and I'll put it up there. There are also 
>some accompanying blog posts:
>
>
>http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/11/01/we-cant-have-corporate-accountability-until-we-have-corporate-identifiers/
>
>http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2011/physics-of-the-corporate-universe/ (technical 
>details of the visualization implementation)
>
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>-- 
>Kaitlin Lee
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