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Credits

  • The Popolo data standard developed by an alliance of open data activists is the foundation of followthemoney. It provides the origin of key entities, including Person, Organization and Membership.
  • Popolo was then implemented by EveryPolitician.org, a MySociety project, establishing a practical reference.
  • This was extended into OCCRP Schema, a JSONSchema based entity model. The JSONSchema definitions were eventually superseded by a custom schema definition format to form FollowTheMoney.
  • The evolution of FollowTheMoney (FtM) data model was driven by a grant of the Google Digital News Initiative issued in 2016 for the development of the Aleph platform.
  • Dr. Amy Guy took an essential role in breaking followthemoney out of Aleph and introducing the current entity-based model.