Ben I think opencorporates.com may be a better fit for general information about businesses. We already have a problem in wikidata with companies that don't meet our notablity criteria creating items in wikidata.
Joe On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 17:19 Ben McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been quite interested in the idea of compiling a list of companies > into Wikidata. I wanted to see how well this fits with Wikidata's goals. > There are company databases like Hoovers/DNB, Mattermark, LinkedIn, > Crunchbase, DataFox, etc. which are very popular, but not as open as > Wikidata. These sites are hugely valuable to folks like investors, job > candidates, sales organizations, etc. and I'd love to see an open > collaborative approach. > > My company could contribute engineering resources towards compiling this > data in Wikidata. E.g. maybe building a tool which allows to pull and > review facts from company websites, SEC filings, news articles referencing > funding amounts or acquisitions, etc. into wikidata. This is something that > we could do on our own behind closed doors, but it seems more interesting > to do it in the open where others can receive value from it and contribute > back such that the dataset grows and becomes more valuable. > > Many of these companies may not be notable or interesting on their own. > However, having an entire compiled dataset where you can lookup any company > is extremely interesting. I'd love Wikidata to be the de facto go-to for > this type of data instead of the more closed organizations mentioned above. > > Is this the type of project that's interesting to Wikidata? If so, I'd be > very interested in learning more about the types of ways that we can engage > with Wikidata and helping to develop a framework for contributing. > > Thanks, > Ben > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well that really depends on the data actually. There are lots of printed >> datasets and if someone has those online and can no longer host them, then >> we might want to harvest some, if not all of it. I am thinking of datasets >> of large collections of <whatever>. I recall not long ago a museum of music >> records became defunct and they were looking for a home for their database. >> We couldn't do anything for them then but we could put it in Mix-n-Match >> today (assuming the data is all published material that is considered a >> reliable source yada yada...) >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 1 July 2015 at 22:51, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > * Where to publish entire datasets... Something tells me that this is >>> not >>> > the most urgent and important problem that we have, but the community >>> > definitely knows better, so correct me if I'm wrong. I think our main >>> use >>> >>> I would agree with this. There has historically been a lot of >>> vagueness around the word "data", and a lot of vague suggestions in >>> the early days when Wikidata was still being created... and as a >>> result people sometimes get the impression that Wikidata intends to be >>> a kind of generalised data repository. This is a bit like assuming >>> Wikipedia will take anything that's got words :-) >>> >>> I wonder if it would be good to identify a couple of good, reliable, >>> repositories we can encourage people to use for this sort of material? >>> This means that even if we have to say to a potential partner "sorry, >>> this isn't what we want", we can still give them advice on how to get >>> it released and available in the most appropriate way. Better than a >>> frustrating back-and-forth... >>> >>> A >>> >>> -- >>> - Andrew Gray >>> [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > > -- > about.me/benmccann > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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