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Are DUNS numbers the crack cocaine of ID systems (and is the UK the latest addict)?

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

Last month the US General Accounting Office, produced an excellent report on the use of Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary DUNS ID system by the Federal Government, specifically the GSA, its procurement and administration arm. In a fairly devastating report, it explains … Continue reading →

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OpenCorporates: The directors’ cut

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

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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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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Links in, links out: it’s all about the connections

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

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 →

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