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. Here's a review of some of his experiments. Looking back over my datajunkie notes, I may only have been using the OpenCorporates API since March … Continue reading Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API
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 officers that OpenCorporates has (with more being added every day). Here's an example: We can now also return XML for those who need this instead of … Continue reading Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API
We've often stated that the goal of OpenCorporates is simple (but huge): to create an openly licensed database containing every corporate legal entity in the world, and provide open URI ids for them. We base this URI on the ID issued by the company register, as this brings multiple benefits: No Monopoly ID system Because we … Continue reading Towards a global lookup service for corporate ids
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
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
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