X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/ce12fb659a8141ff7786d0f4fa0bcecd40ad42ef..f071f6e71b4af08adecdcbae5bb81eb61382a615:/blog/archive/2015/06/06.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2015/06/06.rss b/blog/archive/2015/06/06.rss index 2c75aae2ea..44fcc80c30 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2015/06/06.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2015/06/06.rss @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0200 <p>It is a bit work to figure out the ownership structure of companies in Norway. The information is publicly available, but one need to -recursively look up ownership in all owners to figure out the complete +recursively look up ownership for all owners to figure out the complete ownership graph of a given set of companies. To save me the work in the future, I wrote a script to do this automatically, outputting the ownership structure using the Graphviz/dotty format. The data source @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ is web scraping from <a href="http://www.proff.no/">Proff</a& I failed to find a useful source directly from the official keepers of the ownership data, <a href="http://www.brreg.no/">Brønnøysundsregistrene</a>.</p> -<p>To get a owner ship graph, fetch +<p>To get an owner ship graph for a set of companies, fetch <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/brreg-norway-ownership-graph">the code from git</a> and run it using the organisation number. I'm using the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet as an example here, as its ownership structure is very simple:</p> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ dagbladet.png</tt>". This is the result can be seen below:</p> data in the official ownership register, as that name is not registered in the official company register for Norway. The ownership register is sensitive to typos and there seem to be no strict checking -of the ownership information.</p> +of the ownership links.</p> <p>Let me know if you improve the script or find better data sources. The code is licensed according to GPL 2 or newer.</p>