RESOURCE PROJECTS

First, we find and backup every report disclosed by companies as soon as they are published (this ensures we have a permanent record in case the reports disappear or are moved). Then we scrape the payment data, from PDFs, CSVs and web pages, into a standard format. To clean the data, we standardize project and government names that are disclosed differently across companies and years and convert all payment values to USD, keeping track of the changes we make along the way. Finally, all data is posted in open data format here, on ResourceProjects.org... ResourceProjects.org provides a platform to collect and search extractive project information using open data. It aims to harvest data on project-by-project payments to governments based on recent mandatory disclosure legislation in the EU, Norway, US and Canada as well as in EITI reports.