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namespace (e.g. an ISO country name space) and then to start uploading
lists without much interference from me or anyone else, but then again
this has many many issues.

- Friedrich

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> On 4 July 2011 15:02, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org=
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> having done some work on spending data analysis, I think there is a
>> demand not only for a reconciliation service for companies (which the
>> excellent OpenCorporates.com provides), but also for public entities
>> of all kinds. As an example of the problem, look at
>> http://openspending.org/dataset/ukdepartments/dimension/department_famil=
y
>> (totals are broken atm).
>>
>> As a big fan of OpenCorporates approach on companies, I'd like to
>> propose the creation of a copycat service at publicbodies.org -
>> perhaps with less entity metadata but as an endpoint for
>> reconciliation of public bodies.
>>
>> In order to help with this, I'd like to ask everyone's support in a
>> brief survey:
>>
>> * Does such a service already exist?
>> * Which countries and admin regions publish (machine-readable) lists
>> of public bodies, departments etc.?
>> * Which identifier schemes/taxonomies exist for the classification of
>> such entities?
>> * Any other hints?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> - Friedrich
>>
>> p.s. As for software implementation, I've started a very basic
>> python-based recon server at https://github.com/okfn/helmut to
>> familiarize myself with the API. This can be customized for
>> publicbodies.org but also used in other places, e.g. for MIME types,
>> Taxonomies etc. - wherever we have fuzzy values that need to be
>> matched to a set of given URIs.
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