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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 4 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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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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Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API
We’re pleased to announce the new version of our API (version 0.2), with some significant enhancements and improvements. In particular, you can now search the 39 million company directors and officers that OpenCorporates has (with more being added every day). Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in api, milestone, open data, opencorporates
Tagged api, business intelligence, corporate data, corporations, directors, officers, open data, opendata, reconciliation
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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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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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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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More countries, more companies, and what this means for reconciliation
The open data collaboration with ScraperWiki to add more companies and more countries has been going incredibly well, with over 20 scrapers for company registers being worked on or completed. Because of this we’ve already been able to import Iceland, … Continue reading
Posted in open data, opencorporates
Tagged companies, corporate, google refine, iceland, Malta, opendata, reconciliation, Singapore
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