Yeah, the Seme4 data ain't too good either :-)
Try Tom (Tom Heath <[email protected]>) at the ODI.
On 04/08/2015 17:00, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 8/4/15 11:35 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
The ODI (http://theodi.org) has published a research report,
"Research: Open data means business"
(http://theodi.org/open-data-means-business), along with a Google
sheet of Open Data Companies
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwxNIaxXSEMLktb-oo1UoYTd5WMPFkRLytRVVBr5OMA).
It seemed a nice idea to map the companies and make the data
accessible as 5 * Open Data at http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com
So we have loaded the company data into a Linked Data store with a
SPARQL endpoint (http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/sparql/),
and made the URIs resolve, such as
http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/id/company/od001
We have also used the UK postcodes (and OS services) to plot the
companies on a map:
http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/services/map/
There you go.
This is all a little rough-and-ready, just to see what it looks like,
and see if anyone wants to use it. If you do, and want any changes,
please ask.
Actually, if anyone wanted to produce a similar GSheet for other
places, we could suck that in too.
Best
Hugh
Nice work!
BTW -- how actually handles editing of the original spreadsheet? The
information on OpenLink is really messed up. The ultimate
demonstration of identity and identifiers gone very wrong. Half of the
description is based on OpenLink Financials and the other half
OpenLink Software :(
