| Name | followthemoney JSON |
| Version |
4.1.2
JSON |
| download |
| home_page | None |
| Summary | A data model for anti corruption data modeling and analysis. |
| upload_time | 2025-08-05 15:22:32 |
| maintainer | None |
| docs_url | None |
| author | None |
| requires_python | >=3.10 |
| license | MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017-2024 Journalism Development Network, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2025 OpenSanctions Datenbanken GmbH
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE. |
| keywords |
|
| VCS |
 |
| bugtrack_url |
|
| requirements |
No requirements were recorded.
|
| Travis-CI |
No Travis.
|
| coveralls test coverage |
No coveralls.
|
# Follow the Money
[](https://github.com/opensanctions/followthemoney/actions/workflows/build.yml)
This repository contains a pragmatic data model for the entities most commonly used in investigative reporting and financial crime investigations: people, companies, assets, payments, ownership relations, court cases, etc.
The purpose of this is not to model reality in an ideal data model, but rather to have a working data structure for researchers. Complex legal considerations are simplified to allow for efficient data processing.
`followthemoney` also contains code used to validate and normalize many of the elements of data, and to map tabular data into the model.
## Documentation
For a general introduction to `followthemoney`, check the high-level introduction:
* https://followthemoney.tech
Part of this package is a command-line tool that can be used to process and
transform data in various ways. You can find a tutorial here:
* https://followthemoney.tech/docs/cli/
Besides the introductions, there is also a full reference documentation for the
library and the contained ontology:
* https://followthemoney.tech/explorer/schemata/
There's also a number of viewers for the RDF schema definitions generated from FollowTheMoney, eg:
* [LODE documentation](http://150.146.207.114/lode/extract?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffollowthemoney.tech%2Fns%2Fftm.xml&owlapi=true&imported=true&lang=en)
* [WebVOWL](https://service.tib.eu/webvowl/#iri=https://followthemoney.tech/ns/ftm.xml)
* RDF/OWL specification in [XML](https://followthemoney.tech/ns/ftm.xml).
## Installation
You can install `followthemomey` via PyPI like this:
```bash
pip install followthemoney
```
The most tricky dependency of `followthemoney` is `pyicu`, which helps us to perform certain text operations. Please [review their documentation](https://gitlab.pyicu.org/main/pyicu#installing-pyicu) if you run into any issues with ICU.
## Development environment
For local development with a virtualenv:
```bash
python3 -mvenv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
```
Now you can run the tests with
```bash
make test
```
## Releasing
We release a lot of version of `followthemoney` because even small changes to the code base require a pypi release to begin being used in downstream applications. To this end, here's the steps for making a release:
```bash
git pull --rebase
make build
make test
git add . && git commit -m "Updating translation files"
bumpversion patch
git push --atomic origin main $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
```
This will create a new patch release and upload a distribution of it. If the changes are more significant, you can run `bumpversion` with the `minor` or `major` arguments.
When the schema is updated, please update the docs, ideally including the diagrams. For the RDF namespace and JavaScript version of the model, run `make generate`.
Raw data
{
"_id": null,
"home_page": null,
"name": "followthemoney",
"maintainer": null,
"docs_url": null,
"requires_python": ">=3.10",
"maintainer_email": null,
"keywords": null,
"author": null,
"author_email": "OpenSanctions <info@opensanctions.org>, DARC <hi@dataresearchcenter.org>",
"download_url": null,
"platform": null,
"description": "# Follow the Money\n\n[](https://github.com/opensanctions/followthemoney/actions/workflows/build.yml)\n\nThis repository contains a pragmatic data model for the entities most commonly used in investigative reporting and financial crime investigations: people, companies, assets, payments, ownership relations, court cases, etc.\n\nThe purpose of this is not to model reality in an ideal data model, but rather to have a working data structure for researchers. Complex legal considerations are simplified to allow for efficient data processing.\n\n`followthemoney` also contains code used to validate and normalize many of the elements of data, and to map tabular data into the model.\n\n## Documentation\n\nFor a general introduction to `followthemoney`, check the high-level introduction:\n\n* https://followthemoney.tech\n\nPart of this package is a command-line tool that can be used to process and\ntransform data in various ways. You can find a tutorial here:\n\n* https://followthemoney.tech/docs/cli/\n\nBesides the introductions, there is also a full reference documentation for the\nlibrary and the contained ontology: \n\n* https://followthemoney.tech/explorer/schemata/\n\nThere's also a number of viewers for the RDF schema definitions generated from FollowTheMoney, eg:\n\n* [LODE documentation](http://150.146.207.114/lode/extract?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffollowthemoney.tech%2Fns%2Fftm.xml&owlapi=true&imported=true&lang=en)\n* [WebVOWL](https://service.tib.eu/webvowl/#iri=https://followthemoney.tech/ns/ftm.xml)\n* RDF/OWL specification in [XML](https://followthemoney.tech/ns/ftm.xml).\n\n## Installation\n\nYou can install `followthemomey` via PyPI like this:\n\n```bash\npip install followthemoney\n```\n\nThe most tricky dependency of `followthemoney` is `pyicu`, which helps us to perform certain text operations. Please [review their documentation](https://gitlab.pyicu.org/main/pyicu#installing-pyicu) if you run into any issues with ICU.\n\n## Development environment\n\nFor local development with a virtualenv:\n\n```bash\npython3 -mvenv .env\nsource .env/bin/activate\npip install -e \".[dev]\"\n```\n\nNow you can run the tests with\n\n```bash\nmake test\n```\n\n## Releasing\n\nWe release a lot of version of `followthemoney` because even small changes to the code base require a pypi release to begin being used in downstream applications. To this end, here's the steps for making a release:\n\n```bash\ngit pull --rebase\nmake build\nmake test\ngit add . && git commit -m \"Updating translation files\"\nbumpversion patch\ngit push --atomic origin main $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)\n```\n\nThis will create a new patch release and upload a distribution of it. If the changes are more significant, you can run `bumpversion` with the `minor` or `major` arguments.\n\nWhen the schema is updated, please update the docs, ideally including the diagrams. For the RDF namespace and JavaScript version of the model, run `make generate`.\n",
"bugtrack_url": null,
"license": "MIT License\n \n Copyright (c) 2017-2024 Journalism Development Network, Inc.\n Copyright (c) 2025 OpenSanctions Datenbanken GmbH\n \n Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy\n of this software and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to deal\n in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights\n to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell\n copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is\n furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:\n \n The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all\n copies or substantial portions of the Software.\n \n THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR\n IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,\n FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE\n AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER\n LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,\n OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE\n SOFTWARE.",
"summary": "A data model for anti corruption data modeling and analysis.",
"version": "4.1.2",
"project_urls": {
"Documentation": "https://followthemoney.tech/",
"Issues": "https://github.com/opensanctions/followthemoney/issues",
"Repository": "https://github.com/opensanctions/followthemoney.git"
},
"split_keywords": [],
"urls": [
{
"comment_text": null,
"digests": {
"blake2b_256": "08f072f550533454b3ed2c2fd8747942680169da4c62b6143a9c696df0048567",
"md5": "23c018d2e60edb8ee47fd20fdbc87560",
"sha256": "ca1a231f1290614eafb346d1731371ebfba875661c50a001f335ad60044f39aa"
},
"downloads": -1,
"filename": "followthemoney-4.1.2-py3-none-any.whl",
"has_sig": false,
"md5_digest": "23c018d2e60edb8ee47fd20fdbc87560",
"packagetype": "bdist_wheel",
"python_version": "py3",
"requires_python": ">=3.10",
"size": 482006,
"upload_time": "2025-08-05T15:22:32",
"upload_time_iso_8601": "2025-08-05T15:22:32.299242Z",
"url": "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/08/f0/72f550533454b3ed2c2fd8747942680169da4c62b6143a9c696df0048567/followthemoney-4.1.2-py3-none-any.whl",
"yanked": false,
"yanked_reason": null
}
],
"upload_time": "2025-08-05 15:22:32",
"github": true,
"gitlab": false,
"bitbucket": false,
"codeberg": false,
"github_user": "opensanctions",
"github_project": "followthemoney",
"travis_ci": false,
"coveralls": false,
"github_actions": true,
"lcname": "followthemoney"
}
