Match company data to opencorporates

[CloCkWeRX]

What

• See also Add a manufacturer address field #1036
• OpenCorporates is ODBL (https://opencorporates.com/info/licence)
• https://api.opencorporates.com/documentation/API-Reference talks a bit about the various APIs. It would be reasonably easy to present this via an autocomplete or similar control.
• Additionally modelled in wikidata - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1320

Part of

• Make brands a taxonomized field #5208

[teolemon]

see brands Not taxonomized yet. https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Brands

I've discussed with the Open Corporates founder, which points at the ambiguity of simplistic matching (Nestlé, and its thousands of similarly named subsidiaries)
We need to do #220 first, which will hierarchize brands and subbrands and provide links to Wikidata for the most simple cases.

[CloCkWeRX]

I was thinking rather than at the brand level (which as you point out can be quite nested), targeting only where there is a company address printed.

IE:
https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/9310072025100/vita-weat-multigrain-crackers-arnots

You can see the company detail listed as:

Arnott's Biscuits Limited
24 George Street,
North Strathfield NSW 2137

Which you can marry up to the name, jurisdication, suburb, state and postcode to discover:
https://opencorporates.com/companies/au/008435729

[teolemon]

@CloCkWeRX Can you turn this into a proposal we could add to the GSOC ideas page ?

[CloCkWeRX]

Added to https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/index.php?title=Student_projects/GSOC/Proposals