Tag: wikipedia

What would you like the Open Data Roundtable at Wikimania 2014 to discuss?

Transparency Camp, OKFest and now, Wikimania! This summer has been busy for the Open Data community. Only a week to go before Wikipedia's largest gathering yet: Wikimania 2014. This year, Wikimania comes to the Barbican, in the heart of London (where you can also catch the Digital Revolution exhibition). There are 200 sessions over 3 days. … Continue reading What would you like the Open Data Roundtable at Wikimania 2014 to discuss? →

Ruby and Python coders – can you help us?

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Who controls the biggest corporations in the world? What licences do they hold? What patents have they been granted? What government contracts have they won? If we can't answer important questions like these, we can't start to understand the world we live in. We need YOUR help to inform the direction of a platform we're … Continue reading Ruby and Python coders – can you help us? →

Major milestone: now over 20 million companies

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 →

Introducing CorporateGroupings: where fuzzy concepts meet legal entities

One of the key issues when you're looking at any big company is what are the constituent parts – because these days a company of any size is pretty much never a single legal entity, but a web of companies, often spanning multiple jurisdictions. Sometimes this is done because the company's operations are in different … Continue reading Introducing CorporateGroupings: where fuzzy concepts meet legal entities →