Standardise Industry Affiliatons

[jmatsushita]

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...

Industry
   Agriculture
      Farm
      Ranch
   Construction
      Contractor
      Builder
      Plumbing
   Energy
      Gas
      Oil
   Finance
      Bank
      Brokerage
   Food
      Food_Distribution
         Food_Wholesale
     Restaurant
     Supermarket
      Food_Production
         Beverages
   Insurance
      Accident
      Casualty
      Health
      Life
      Property
   Real_Estate
   Government
      County
      State
      Country
   Information
      Publishing
      Motion_Picture
      Sound_Recording
      Broadcasting
      Telecommunications
      Information_Services
   Manufacture
      Aerospace
      Automotive
      Electronics
   Mining
   Retail
      Apparel
      Books
      Catalog
      Deparment_Store
      Drugs
      Electronics
      Home_Improvement
      Jewelry
   Service_Industry
      Accountancy
      Advertising
      Consulting
      Healthcare
         Dentist
         Physician
         Hospital
      Legal
   Transportation
      Airline
      Travel_Agency
   Utilities
   Warehousing

What do you think?

[pudo]

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?

[jmatsushita]

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):

• http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1#hasISICv4
• http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1#hasNAICS

There are also rules in NACE (presumably also for ISIC) to determine the principal activity when an organisation has multiple activities:

from https://www.economy.com/support/blog/getfile.asp?did=5E5D88CF-1DEF-4655-8767-ADF01EC463D0&fid=cc033c0c72be4a3e8035a8b459ee0de0.pdf