A database of public bodies (or organizations):

Government-run or controlled organizations or entities which may or may not have distinct corporate existence

Examples are:

• Government Ministries or Departments
• State-run Health organizations
• Police and fire departments

Visit the site: https://publicbodies.org/

Data

Data is stored in CSVs partitioned by country or region (e.g. EU) in the data folder. Files are named by two-letter ISO code.

Contribute Data

Please just add a CSV file and submit a pull request or open an issue.

The set of fields required in the CSV file can be seen in the field list on: public-body-schema.json. You can also check out the existing data in data/ for hints. To learn more about Data Packages, visit https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/.

For Developers of the Website

The website is a node webapp. To get it running:

1. Install node and npm (>= 12). Alternatively, install Docker.

2. Get the code

   git clone https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies

3. Install the dependencies (make sure you are in the publicbodies directory)

   npm install .

   If you're using Docker, build the container instead:

   docker build --rm -t publicbodies .

   If you are building a development environment, please use:

   docker build --rm -t publicbodies . --build-arg NODE_ENV=development

   so that you can get debugging information.

4. Run the webapp:

   node index.js

   If you're using Docker, start the container instead:

   docker run --rm --name publicbodies -p 3000:3000 -it publicbodies node index.js

The list of outstanding issues is at: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues

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Original Preparation

Details of the automated data extraction to build the original database.

Data sources:

• Brazil
  • Brazilian Government's SIORG – https://dados.gov.br/dataset/siorg
• European Union
  • AskTheEU.org
• Italy
  • Opendata IPA (amministrazioni / enti)
• Germany
  • FragDenStaat.de – (private GoogleDoc)
  • Bund.de – https://www.bund.de/Content/DE/Behoerden/Suche/Formular.html
• United Kingdom
  • WhatDoTheyKnow.com – https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/all-authorities.csv
• United States of America
  • A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies – https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a