Hi Luigi,
I favour cooperation with OpenCorporates instead of independently adding
lots of company record to Wikidata. Sure there are parallel strategies
but any effort should also include OpenCorporates to some degree.
OpenCorporates is licensed under ODbL (just added this referenced
statement to Q7095760) and we have property P1320 to link Wikidata and
OpenCorporates. A first step would be to align
https://opencorporates.com/registers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_registers
Right now we have 18 instances of company register (Q1394657) and its
subclasses explicitly classified as such in Wikidata.
These items should be linked with the registers listed at
OpenCorporates, e.g.
UK Companies House (Q257303)
= https://opencorporates.com/registers/270
I've also noticed that OpenCorporates has a field for "Identifiers"
where Wikidata QIDs may be included to have two-way-links between the
two datasets.
Anyway, better contact https://opencorporates.com/info/contributing at
least to let them know about your plans.
Cheers,
Jakob
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