rigour

Data cleaning and validation functions for processing various types of text emanating and describing the business world. This applies to person and company names, language, territory and country codes, corporate and tax identifiers, etc.

• Identifiers such as corporate or tax registration numbers.
• Person and organisation names
• Territories, including countries and jurisdictions
• Addresses
• Languages
• MIME types
• URLs
• Text processing
• Other utilities

Related resources

This library is built to provide foundational functionality for a broader ecosystem of tools.

• FollowTheMoney - principal user of rigour
• OpenSanctions: open source projects
• Aleph project

Naming

rigour is the base domain layer for the aleph suite of tools.

On rigor in science by Jorge Luis Borges (Translation by Diego Doval)

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied an entire City, and the map of the Empire, an entire Province. In time, these Excessive Maps did not satisfy and the Schools of Cartographers built a Map of the Empire, that was of the Size of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. Less Addicted to the Study of Cartography, the Following Generations understood that that dilated Map was Useless and not without Pitilessness they delivered it to the Inclemencies of the Sun and the Winters. In the Deserts of the West endure broken Ruins of the Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in the whole country there is no other relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

Suárez Miranda: Viajes de varones prudentes, libro cuarto, cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658.

Acknowledgements

• github.com/confirmordeny - extensive cultural data