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Business listings provide a directory of all licensed businesses in the municipal area, including key information such as name, address, contact information, and business type. This dataset can be a useful tool for tracking city economic activity and holding businesses accountable for good corporate citizenship. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | No | no license specified for permitcleveland; the diversitycompliance explicited said "The information provided in this file is not to be used for unsolicited advertising, spam, or any other unauthorized use." without declaring what unauthorized was (this was in the csv results of the file downloaded) |
| Available in bulk | No | no noticeable way to download the data (unless you scrape it?) (for the permitcleveland.org site); diversi |
| Up-to-date | Yes | There are results of applications that were submitted today. |
| Available free online | No | the permitcleveland.org required registration; diversitycompliance did not |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | ||
| findable | 1 | required a fair amount of google searching, luck, and some bookmarks that I luckily had saved. |
| findable_steps | searched for "business records", "business license" found no relevant results; was frustrated... (cont in comments) | did more searching, and I honestly forget how I ended up finding https://ca.permitcleveland.org/public/Default.aspx which then required me to register. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | |
| collector_name | Division of assessments and licenses, to my knowledge. | |
| online_otherwise | Yes | |
| characteristics | Business name, Business type | On the permit site: Usage is quite limited; you're able to input a businesses name, address, type of license, and other characteristics to see if a permit has been issued (this is helpful) But the results only display the name, the date of application was made, and the status; so if you intended to obtain a list of all registered barbershops, you'll have a list of their license numbers and when their application was approved, and their name (which isn't always filled in). and you can't download any of it. on the diversity site, all information [name, location, contact information, type of licensing given, types of classification awarded to business regarding diversity] is included which is helpful, but it's a very small number of businesses. |
| location | https://ca.permitcleveland.org - , href="https://cleveland.diversitycompliance.com/" https://cleveland.diversitycompliance.com/">rel="nofollow">https://cleveland.diversitycompliance.com/ - Certification and Compliance Reporting System (3rd party, contracted out by city) | https://cleveland.diversitycompliance.com/ is specifically for CSB/MBE/FBE/LGBTBE and Section 3 Businesses |