A neutral home for the world's reference layer.

From hyperlinks to entities.

The web organized the world's information by URL. The AI era organizes it around entities and their relationships: the companies, people, places, and things decisions are actually made about. OpenData.org is an open source reference graph that connects entities across every silo, built on a foundational layer of companies, people, and places.

Members and contributors shape the technical roadmap, the data model, and the standards before they become standards.

A nonprofit initiative partnered with leading open-source organizations, including the Linux Foundation. No vendor capture.

The data is open source and freely downloadable by anyone. Membership is influence, never access.

BrightQuery is the initiating member and seed data provider. Its government-sourced graph of businesses, people, and places, built from more than 100,000 official sources, seeds the consortium's foundational layer. From there, the graph grows the way open source grows: through its members and contributors.