Last weekend saw Accountability Hack, a hackathon focussing on making innovative use of public data from National Audit Office, Office of National Statistics and Parliament. The joint event was a great…
We're proud to announce that version 0.3 of the OpenCorporates API is now live, with many, many new features, improvements (and even a few bug fixes). Along the way, we've…
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.…
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…
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…
Just before Christmas, we introduced the new OpenCorporates API, which allows access to all the information in OpenCorporates, including allowing searching. We said then that we'd give some examples of…
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…
One of the key aspects of OpenCorporates has always been that word 'open'. Open here means something very specific. It means freedom (as in free speech), not just free beer.…