Open jmatsushita opened 9 years ago
This looks a lot like the OpenSecrets thing, is it the same? What is the benefit of this over one of the official taxonomies, like NAICS/NACE?
No benefit I can see now that I know about NAICS/NACE. Don't know if it's the same as OpenSecrets. Maybe @opensecrets can tell?
ISIC seems to be the UN standard applicable worldwide. (NACE is a derived classification of ISIC)
Here's a query-able database of NACE codes, and a browsable list of ISIC codes
Looks like GoodRelations is interoperable with ISIC and NAICS (not NACE):
There are also rules in NACE (presumably also for ISIC) to determine the principal activity when an organisation has multiple activities:
Following up on this tweet @pudo @tttp
This Organization ontology seems to have a reasonably simple Industry taxonomy that might be a good minimum interop structure...
What do you think?