OFAC source

[sschneiderman]

Andrew,
Should we add the OFAC database as a source? Is this technically possible tomorrow?
http://sdnsearch.ofac.treas.gov/
SS

[astrite]

Given that,"SDN Search uses literal character matching logic to identify exact matches between word or character “strings” exactly as entered into SDN Search, and any name or other information exactly as it appears on the SDN list. SDN Search will not detect misspellings or other incorrectly entered text, and will not return near matches to, or other variations of, the entered text" we probably would need to download and ingest the database. We'd have better visibility and might be able to provide partial text matches (extremely useful for non English names).

[sschneiderman]

Can we ingest the database today? I think this is useful for demonstrating sources that are not Google news sources

[astrite]

Downloaded XML today, working on parsing into a viable source file. Will need to manually update when it gets updated, but should be a fairly simply process after the fact.

[sschneiderman]

Thanks.

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Downloaded XML today, working on parsing into a viable source file. Will need to manually update when it gets updated, but should be a fairly simply process after the fact.

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