Over 140 sources, one model.
Registers, authorities, parliaments and organisations in Germany and Europe publish the data Strohmann reads: each source on its publisher’s rhythm, each cleared legally before it is read, each kept as published beside what was read from it.
Where the data comes from.
- Commercial registers
- Register sheets with seat, officers and former names: who represents a company, and who did.
- Holdings and groups
- Who owns whom, from LEI records and the holdings reports of public bodies.
- Lobby and transparency registers
- Who represents which interests to the Bundestag, the Commission and the Parliament, with clients and expenses.
- Parliaments
- Mandates, groups and committees of members, from the official master data.
- Party finances
- Donations to parties as the parliament publishes them, with payer and amount.
- Funding and procurement
- Grants and public contracts from funding databases and procurement portals.
- Organisations
- What non-governmental organisations and associations publish on holdings, mandates and money, where the licence allows it.
A source without clearance is not read.
- Legal clearance
- Every source carries its licence and a ruling on whether it may be read. Without clearance no connector runs; the check sits in the code before the reading.
- Kept as published
- Every source is kept as it was published, beside what was read from it. A model can change without fetching the source again.
- Rhythm
- Every source is read on its publisher’s rhythm, not ours.
- Persons
- Only what a register prints by name: officers, representatives, members of parliament, donors above the threshold. Nothing beyond that, and no judgement.
- Gaps
- What a source does not say stays empty. A gap is a gap, never an estimate.