Hi,
I would like to join thread I found in the archive:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata//2017-October/011259.html
I worked in contextual research to facilitate knowledge transfer.
One of the domain I would like to treat is visualisation of economics networks.
I seek for an impact over governance of innovation and transparency over economics network control, and allow also SMEs companies or private citizens to build their analytics and prevent cases of collusions.
Information about business profiles is currently a premium service provided by private specialised corporations, although much of the information about companies is public, but there is lack of open data policy.
I would like to fill the gap and contribute to feed Wikidata as repository, either in bulk either as a collective action - as a design thinker I could contribute to design processes to fill in data, like applications that facilitate the process.
Is there any guidance or clearance about this initiatives?
I am happy to read similar interest from Germany, Belgium and Italy, I would like to connect.
I read that feeding wikidata with corporate information would significantly increase the size - though, I think that the benefit to allow to inquire for public governance would allow to distribute governance of economics data.
Aside of public services like:
that relies on private parternships to access corporate databases, and so findings cannot be quieried by the public.
Is there a specific Wikidata policy to comply with to feed data from scrapers of websites?
As a starter, the URI of sites with good reputation could act as an identifier.
I believe that scraping would be legit for information about property "facts" (below) are public, and organisations that collated data provides services (as professional communities or services augmented with private data) that would be not in competition with building a repository.
In a way, I see wikidata as possibility to indexing data that can be functional to search engines and discovery engines, and indexing data is an activity that is daily run by such services. I believe that enabling public transparency would enhance open-data services.
Below some properties of interest.
Properties I would be interested in are:
- TEAM (founders)
- DESCRIPTION (corporate description over products and services)
- INVESTORS (corp. and private equity)
- EMPLOYEES / INCUBATORS / ADVISORS (personal information available as public information over the web)
- PARTICIPATED COMPANIES
- DATE of acquisition or participation to companies
- CAPITAL (if available, or in ranges)
- VAT NUMBER (or registry number)
- ADDRESS
Other ideas to fetch the business profile of companies?
It should be, somehow, publicly available, for each corporate report to the organisation registry and there are already private companies offering analytics over the business profiles.
Luigi