The euBusinessGraph project provided the necessary foundation for a knowledge graph of Europe-wide company-related information. We developed a Company Data Model (i.e. vocabulary) that covers companies, company types, status, jurisdictions, addresses, location data, classifications of economic activities, company registrations (in official and alternate registers), relevant social data (e.g. websites), and company officers and the nature of their relationships with their companies. In developing the company model we reused other appropriate ontologies (e.g. W3C Org, RegOrg and schema.org). Furthermore, we developed a model to create euBusinessGraph company identifiers. To support the data onboarding, we designed and implemented a set of data ingestion services integrated in the euBusinessGraph platform. The data ingestion services support data import, data cleaning, data mapping and transformation, data enrichment, schema-level semantic annotation, knowledge graph vocabulary faceted search and statistics, data hosting and queries, analytics, multi-lingual annotation, as well as other operational services (e.g. marketplace portal). In addition, we defined RDF Shapes to validate the onboarded data. As part of the work on the business graph we integrated and deployed selected datasets from the data providers in accordance with the euBusinessGraph Company Data Model.
Apart from the technical results, the project finalized the development of six data-driven business products and services based on company-related data value chains across domains that can be replicated throughout Europe. In particular, 1) the Corporate Events Data access, which integrates public corporate register data with the OpenCorporates.com database, 2) the Tender Discovery Service, which is a service for supporting companies in discovering new open tender opportunities tailored to their company profiles, 3) the Atoka+ B2B lead generation service, 4) the Customer Relationship Management Service (CRM-S), which leverages business data to establish new lines of business, 5) the Data Journalism Product Service, which supports journalists in dealing with complex and large volumes of company related data across the three journalistic workflows: search, monitoring and content production, and 6) the Norwegian Public Registries API service, which improves accessibility of several (currently disconnected) major Norwegian authoritative public sector registers.
