During the last year I’ve been working at CorpWatch with a fantastic group of developers and researchers on the CrocTail project. The name came to us only a few days before the launch in September 2009: it was know as the EDGAR project when we got funding from the Sunlight Foundation after presenting the idea at Netsquared 2008.
CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their many foreign and domestic subsidiaries. Information from company Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings has been parsed and annotated by CorpWatch to highlight specific corporate accountability issues. CrocTail also serves as a demonstration of the features and data available through the CorpWatch API. Skye, one of the developers, has a great blog post with video visualizations of how corporate structures change over time.
This project is an extension of the Crocodyl.org Wiki, an online compendium profiling the accountability and transparency track records of multinational corporations. I’ve been managing and editing Crocodyl as part of my work in Corpwatch.
