EDGAR

We're very excited and very proud to announce that we have started the technical development phase of our EDGAR database Mashup project, supported by the Sunlight Foundation.

The aim of the EDGAR/Mashup project is to create an open database of parent/subsidiary relationships among all publicly traded companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The data will come from sub-files that make up part of the 10-K annual filings that all publicly traded firms must submit to the SEC.

If you've been following Crocodyl for a while you will remember this idea was one of the Featured Projects at Netsquared N2Y3 conference.

This project is full of interesting challenges, for example, overcoming pulling data that is not always uniformly formatted together into one database. We are having conversations with other projects that are focusing on similar data sets, so we can eventually present our data together. These are all great projects that are doing valuable work to make corporate data widely available:

• Littlesis.org publishes profiles of influential, powerful people in government and different industries.

• Maplight.org helps users visualize the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes.

• FedSpending.org provides site users with full spending data for federal contracts.

• Freebase.com is a community-based, open database of the world’s information covering millions of topics in hundreds of categories, including corporations.

If you'd like to send us feedback and comments about the EDGAR/Mashup project, please do so. We'll be posting periodic updates on its status.