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- @lucyfedia we've got some, plan for adding more. 1 day ago
- Required reading for all interested in complex corporate structures & tax. US Senate cttee report on Apple (PDF): levin.senate.gov/download/exhib… 4 days ago
- @pigsonthewing No in the UK. Several jurisdictions make them free and open (check out NZ). UK charges for them, limiting access 5 days ago
- @MrkMcknz Thanks. Great idea. 1 week ago
- 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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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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Links in, links out: it’s all about the connections
It’s been a really hectic week, and it’s not over yet, but before we head off to San Francisco for Data2.0 it’s worth updating the community on a couple of small but significant developments. First, two of the leading open-data … Continue reading
Posted in open data, opencorporates
Tagged EDGAR, iceland, linkeddata, opendata, SEC, uk, uris
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OpenCorporates March update: more companies, more data, more features
The past few months have been pretty busy at OpenCorporates, with literally hundreds of commits, improvements, bugfixes and tweaks. The underlying search has been improved (with more improvements planned), we’re now pulling in more data about companies, and we’ve added … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, financial, gov20, linkeddata, michigan, open data, opendata, trademarks
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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
Posted in howto, open data, opencorporates
Tagged business intelligence, corporate, financial, google refine, gov20, linked data, linkeddata, open data, opendata
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