Category Archives: howto

How to use the OpenCorporates API, Part 1: widgets

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Just before Christmas, we introduced the new OpenCorporates API, which allows access to all the information in OpenCorporates, including allowing searching. We said then that we’d give some examples of how to use the API, and the first one is … Continue reading →

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APIs, why an open licence matters (& another milestone)

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

One of the key aspects of OpenCorporates has always been that word ‘open’. Open here means something very specific. It means freedom (as in free speech), not just free beer. The open source movement has travelled this road before, not … Continue reading →

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Case study: Fixing broken government information with open data

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

This is a tale of good intentions, bad practices, and broken processes. Although it’s superficially about charity and company data, in fact it’s really about how the public sector is failing to use the open data now being produced, and … Continue reading →

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Introducing OpenCorporates: a new way of seeing business

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

Why OpenCorporates? Like most open data/open source projects, it was started (just a couple of months ago), because the founders, Chris Taggart & Rob McKinnon, needed such a resource to exist. Specifically we needed: an open data base of companies … Continue reading →

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