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 with)? Who would have thought that 12 months later we would have become 10 times … Continue reading One year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… and a new API
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 and, today, Ireland (we're still importing the Irish data, and reckon there's probably something under … Continue reading Major milestone: now over 20 million companies
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 in the process increasing costs and stifling promising open data business models. One of … Continue reading Case study: Fixing broken government information with open data
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, Singapore and, today, Malta companies, bring the total number of companies we've got URLs for … Continue reading More countries, more companies, and what this means for reconciliation
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 not just in the UK, or in another individual country, but in any country a … Continue reading Introducing OpenCorporates: a new way of seeing business
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