This presentation is based on a blog post (http://linked-data.blogspot.com/2013/08/re-using-open-access-content.html) in the context of the P2PU course on OpenScience (https://p2pu.org/en/courses/5/open-science-an-introduction/).

2. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Find the following information about companies:
• Registered name
• Alternative name(s)
• Acronym(s)
• Address
• Homepage URL
• Stock Exchange ticker symbol

3. SEARCH LINKED DATA REPOSITORIES
• Freebase (https://developers.google.com/freebase/index)
• Query dataset to determine if required information was available
• Investigate licensing for re-use (CC-BY)
• DBPedia (http://dbpedia.org)
• Query dataset to determine if required information was available
• Investigate licensing for re-use (CC-BY-SA)
• Conclusion
• Lack of consistency across the dataset
• Missing information (e.g. ticker symbol) from dataset

4. USE GOOGLE TO FIND REPOSITORIES
• Searched for “company information api”
• Investigated several repositories
• CorpWatch API
• Missing the ticker symbol
• No explicit licensing, but need to be made contribution needs to be made
public
• OpenCorporate
• Provides information about over 55,000,000 companies
• Investigate licensing for re-use (CC-BY-SA)

5. INFORMATION
This presentation is based on a blog post (http://linked-
data.blogspot.com/2013/08/re-using-open-access-content.html) in the
context of the P2PU course on OpenScience
(https://p2pu.org/en/courses/5/open-science-an-introduction/)