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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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3 reasons why the EU’s new Business Vocabulary is so important
This weekend, the EU published its public draft of its Business Vocabulary (along with Person and Location), to help make it easier for organisations within Europe, including governments themselves, to exchange information relating to companies. Now if I haven’t already … Continue reading
Posted in open data, opencorporates, standards
Tagged companies, corporate, corporations, European Commission, financial, LEI, LEIS, linked data, linkeddata, semantic web
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One year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… and a new API
Was it just a year ago that we launched OpenCorporates, after just a couple months’ coding? When we opened up over 3 million companies and allowed searching across multiple jurisdictions (admittedly there were just three of them to start off … Continue reading
Posted in api, milestone, opencorporates
Tagged api, business intelligence, google refine, linked data, open data, opendata, reconciliation
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New features: add company data, log in with LinkedIn
One of the earliest requests for features on OpenCorporates was actually from company owners – the ability to add data about their company, especially websites and telephone numbers. Well, now at last you can do that, and not just company … Continue reading
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Tagged address, business intelligence, corporations, linked data, multinationals, open data, opendata, ugc
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Major milestone: now over 20 million companies
Well, that didn’t take too long. It was barely 3 months ago that OpenCorporates hit 10 million companies, and in what seems like no time at all we’ve doubled that. In that time, we’ve: Added important countries such as Spain … Continue reading
Posted in milestone, open data, opencorporates
Tagged companies, corporate, corporations, google refine, gov20, Ireland, linked data, multinationals, open data, opendata, reconciliation, wikipedia
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Introducing OpenCorporates: a new way of seeing business
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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Tagged business intelligence, corporate, financial, google refine, gov20, linked data, linkeddata, open data, opendata
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