What's happening at OpenSanctions?
Updates from the OpenSanctions project, including new features, technical deep dives, and analysis.
: Improving the way we score matching results
Our updated API uses a statistical model to determine if your query matches one of the entities in the OpenSanctions database. As we do this, we put a premium on transparency and share both the training data and scoring code.
: What is next for OpenSanctions?
Since its launch last September, OpenSanctions has nearly doubled its scope to 204,000 persons and entities of interest from across 43 data sources.
: Using graph analytics to find evidence of corruption
In cooperation with Linkurious, we worked to develop a network graph view of the OpenSanctions data and demo how it can be used in anti-corruption and money laundering investigations.
: How-to: Using the matching API to do KYC-style checks
Know-Your-Customer (KYC) checks are a different challenge to normal text searches: your query is supposed to describe a person or company in some detail to allow the OpenSanctions API to check if that entity (or a similar one) is flagged.
: We're now integrating persons of interest from Wikidata!
The structured-data edition of Wikipedia offers a compelling source of information on many persons in the public eye. Mining the data is, however, not for the faint of heart.
: The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack
A guest post from Tony Bowden about his efforts to build an open source dataset of world leaders inside of Wikidata, the structured-data version of Wikipedia.
: How to sanctions-check a spreadsheet using OpenRefine
OpenRefine, a power tool for data cleaning, offers a way to quickly check hundreds or thousands of names against the OpenSanctions database to find the ones that might be persons of interest in an investigation.
: Introducing business licenses for OpenSanctions
We are introducing business licenses for OpenSanctions as a way for companies using the data to support our long-term sustainability.
: Using ICIJ DataShare to sanctions-check a document leak
OpenSanctions is a resource for journalists to find leads in document stashes. But in order to use it, you need a tool that can help you search sanctioned entities inside your documents.
: How we deduplicate companies and people across data sources
One key function of OpenSanctions is to match and de-duplicate data from many sanctions lists. In this article, we discuss our approach to matching and merging list duplicates.
: Presentation: What is OpenSanctions?
Our colleagues at the OpenOwnership initiative gave us an opportunity to present a very quick introduction about the OpenSanctions project. Have a look at the recording!
