/publicbodies

A database of public bodies such as government departments, ministries etc.

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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

Original Preparation

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

Data sources: