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- @pigsonthewing No in the UK. Several jurisdictions make them free and open (check out NZ). UK charges for them, limiting access 2 days ago
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- Looking forward to presenting at #PDF13 in New York next month: personaldemocracy.com/conferences/ny… Some great speakers & friends of @opencorporates 1 week ago
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What makes a good company register? Part 1: The public purpose
This is the first in a series of posts on company registers – why they exist, what they should do, and how they should do it, based on OpenCorporates’ interactions with over 70 of them. Over the past six months, … Continue reading
Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API
Tony Hirst, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Systems at The Open University, and author of the OUseful.info blog has been using the OpenCorporates API for some time. Here’s a review of some of his experiments. Looking back … Continue reading
Posted in api, opencorporates
Tagged api, companies, corporate, corporate hierarchy, directors, open data, opendata, reconciliation, trademarks, visualisation
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Stop Press: UK to open up company director information
This just in: UK Companies House has just announced that access to company appointments data will be free of charge from October 1. This is fantastic news and moves the UK closer to the fully free situation of New Zealand, … Continue reading
Posted in open data, opencorporates
Tagged business intelligence, companies, corporate, corporate governance, directors, officers, opendata
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Access to EU company data is very poor, Neelie
Two months ago, OpenCorporates published our ground-breaking report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries. The results were not good, with an average score of just 21 out of 100. Following this, Neelie Kroes, the EU Vice-President in … Continue reading
Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data… and Belgium announces it will too
A couple of months ago, OpenCorporates published our report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries, which was pretty dire, with the countries scoring an average of just 21 out of 100 points. Well, today, Norway has boosted … Continue reading
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Tagged api, Brønnøysundregistrene, business registers, companies, norway, OGP, open data, open government partnership, opendata
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Towards a global lookup service for corporate ids
We’ve often stated that the goal of OpenCorporates is simple (but huge): to create an openly licensed database containing every corporate legal entity in the world, and provide open URI ids for them. We base this URI on the ID issued … Continue reading
Posted in api, open data, opencorporates, standards
Tagged companies, corporate, corporations, EDGAR, LEI, linked data, linkeddata, open data, opendata, reconciliation, SEC, uris
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How open is company data in Open Government Partnership countries?
Today, the day before the Open Government Partnership meeting starts in Brasilia, OpenCorporates is publishing a major new report into access to company data in OGP countries, and the picture is not good. Out of a total of a possible 100 … Continue reading
Corporate confidentiality, company relationships, and why this ‘competitive advantage’ is anti-competitive
Last week OpenCorporates was in Basel at the Financial Stability Board‘s workshop on Global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) for corporate entities, as a member of the advisory panel. It’s worth giving a sentence or two’s background here for those who aren’t … Continue reading
Major milestones: 40m companies, 50+ jurisdictions, moving out of alpha, getting respectable
We did it – last week we went over the 40 million companies mark, with the addition of our 52st jurisdiction: Mauritius. As well as being quite a significant milestone in itself, we’re also using this as an excuse to … Continue reading
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Tagged companies, corporations, Financial Stability Board, Global LEI, LEI, Mauritius, open data, opendata, SEC
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OpenCorporates: The directors’ cut
One of the most often requested features for OpenCorporates, especially by journalists, is for us to extract information about the directors and officers for the over 35 million companies we’ve opened up. And as Alex Howard reported on O’Reilly Radar … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, companies, corporate, corporate governance, corporations, directors, officers, open data, opendata, uk
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