OpenCorporates is thrilled to announce the launch of a new project: OpenGazettes - which will open up government gazettes, aggregating them across multiple countries and enabling powerful searches into the…
It’s been 4 months since we started importing UK company accounts data as XBRL (a worldwide standard format that allows company accounts to be easily readable by computers), thanks to the…
Update: In record time we've starting importing Companies House XBRL data, and extracting the key financial figures from it (you can also click through to the underlying accounts themselves). It…
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…
When we started OpenCorporates it was to solve a real need that we and a number of other people in the open data community had: whether it's Government spending, subsidy…
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…
PRESS RELEASE, January 13, 2010 Over 2 million Netherlands companies added to OpenCorporates thanks to openkvk.nl In a groundbreaking collaboration between OpenCorporates.com, the Open Database of the Corporate World, and…
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…