Journal Title 0 (0) 1 1 IOS Press 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 The euBusinessGraph Ontology: a 4 5 5 6 6 7 Lightweight Ontology for Harmonizing 7 8 8 9 Basic Company Information 9 10 10 11 11 a;∗ b c a 12 Dumitru Roman , Vladimir Alexiev , Javier Paniagua , Brian Elvesæter , 12 a a b d 13 Bjørn Marius von Zernichow , Ahmet Soylu , Boyan Simeonov and Chris Taggart 13 14 a SINTEF AS, Norway 14 15 E-mail: {firstname.lastname}@sintef.no 15 16 b Ontotext, Bulgaria 16 17 E-mail: {firstname.lastname}@ontotext.com 17 18 c SpazioDati, Italy 18 19 E-mail:
[email protected] 19 20 d OpenCorporates, UK 20 21 E-mail:
[email protected] 21 22 22 23 Abstract. Company data, ranging from basic company information such as company name(s) and incorporation date to complex 23 24 balance sheets and personal data about directors and shareholders, are the foundation that many data value chains depend upon 24 in various sectors (e.g., business information, marketing and sales, etc.). Company data becomes a valuable asset when data 25 25 is collected and integrated from a variety of sources, both authoritative (e.g., national business registers) and non-authoritative 26 (e.g., company websites). Company data integration is however a difficult task primarily due to the heterogeneity and complexity 26 27 of company data, and the lack of generally agreed upon semantic descriptions of the concepts in this domain. In this article, 27 28 we introduce the euBusinessGraph ontology as a lightweight mechanism for harmonising company data for the purpose of 28 aggregating, linking, provisioning and analysing basic company data.