Company Data

When we talk of a company such as

“BP” or “Shell”, what do we actually

mean?

What do we mean by

“company data”?

Company …… name… number… registered address

Company …… formation date… dissolution date… directors

Company …… subsidiaries… shareholdings… “parents”… contracts

http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04366849/network.json?depth=2

http://api.opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04366849

Company data

Subsidiaries

http://api.opencorporates.com/companies/search?q=%22royal%20dutch%20shell%22

http://opencorporates.com/reconcile?query=%22royal%20dutch%20shell%22

http://api.opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04366849

http://api.opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04366849

http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04366849/network.json?depth=2

http://api.opencorporates.com/officers/search?q=%22JOSEF%20MEINRAD%20ACKERMANN%22

So how might we identify how

corporate entities be related or linked…?

… similarity of name?

… ownership? (parent-child; common parent (siblings)? etc)

… co-directors?

… space (registered address)?

… time (formation & dissolution dates)?

You’ve seen the pieces – so what’s

the jigsaw…?

SchoolOfData.org

Appendix - How to grab the data

using OpenRefine