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 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 now pulling in more data about companies, and we've added more countries too. ...Or rather, we've added more jurisdictions, as it's not just countries that … Continue reading OpenCorporates March update: more companies, more data, more features
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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