Hi Thad,
It is a really great project, I quote some of the points of Sebastian:
> # regarding Opencorporates
> I have a critical opinion with Opencorporates. It appears to be
> open, but you actually can not get the data. If somebody has a
> data dump, please forward to me. Thanks.
> More on top, I consider Opencorporates a danger to open data. It
> appears to push open availability of data, but then it is limited
> to open licenses. Usefulness is limited as there are no free dumps
> and no possibility to duplicate it effectlively. Wikipedia and
> Wikidata provide dumps and an API for exactly this reason.
> Everytime somebody wants to create an open organisation dataset
> with no barriers, the existence of Opencorporates is blocking this.
I think that having the possibility to make an analysis on bulk is important.
Some data in opencorporates are incomplete - like founders, capital raised, investors, despite some info is fed from users.
Currently most data is about US and NZ, Id like t see EU more represented.
I would like to have possibility to visualise a network of companies and their participations.
And build bypartite graphs between personas and companies.
I will try to reach them, about cooperation for such a project.
Do you have connections with them?