OpenCorporates explained

OpenCorporates
Type:Public records database
Registration:Optional
Language:English
Content License:Open Database Licence
Owner:OpenCorporates Ltd
Current Status:Active

OpenCorporates is a website that shares data on corporations under the copyleft Open Database License. The company, OpenCorporates Ltd,[1] was incorporated on 18 December 2010 by Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon, and the website was officially launched on 20th.[2]

Data is sourced from national business registries in 140 jurisdictions, and presented in a standardised form. Collected data comprises the name of the entity, date of incorporation, registered addresses, and the names of directors. Some data, such as the ownership structure, is contributed by users.[3] [4]

Recognition

In 2011, the site won third place in the Open Data Challenge.[5] Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes said the site "is the kind of resource the (Digital) Single Market needs and it is encouraging to see that it is being built."[6] The project was represented on the European Union's Core Vocabularies Working Group's Core Business Task Force.[7]

In early 2012, the project was appointed to the Financial Stability Board's advisory panel on a Legal Entity Identification for Financial Contracts.[8]

In July 2015, OpenCorporates was a finalist in both the Business and Publisher categories at the Open Data Institute Awards.[9] It was announced as the winner of the Open Data Business Award due to work with promoting data transparency in the corporate sector.[10]

Usage

The service has been used to study public procurement data, online hiring market, to visualize and analyze company data[11] [12] to analyze tax havens, illicit activities of companies.[13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Public records privacy policy . 2024-01-18 . OpenCorporates.
  2. OpenCorporates launches . OpenCorporates . 4 January 2021 . en . 20 December 2010.
  3. Web site: Researching Corporations and Their Owners . Global Investigative Journalism Network . 1 August 2023.
  4. Web site: Finding Company Information . The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . 1 August 2023.
  5. Web site: Open Data Challenge winners. 2 July 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110816002600/http://opendatachallenge.org/#winners. 16 August 2011.
  6. Web site: Getting out the Data. Kroes. Neelie. Europa. 2 July 2011.
  7. Web site: Core Vocabularies Working Group Members. 15 February 2012. Europa. 6 April 2012.
  8. Web site: FSB Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Initiative Industry Advisory Panel – Membership. 2012. Financial Stability Board. 6 April 2012.
  9. ODI Awards 2015 Finalists. Open Data Award 2015. 13 August 2015.
  10. Celebrating Generation Open – ODI awards network thinkers who are changing the world. open data institute. 13 August 2015.
  11. Mane . U. V. . Gurav . P. N. . Deshmukh . A. M. . Govindwar . S. P. . 2008 . Degradation of textile dye reactive navy – blue Rx (Reactive blue–59) by an isolated Actinomycete Streptomyces krainskii SUK – 5 . Malaysian Journal of Microbiology . 4 . 2 . 10.21161/10.21161/mjm.106717 . 2231-7538. free .
  12. Roman. Dumitru. Alexiev. Vladimir. Paniagua. Javier. Elvesæter. Brian. von Zernichow. Bjørn Marius. Soylu. Ahmet. Simeonov. Boyan. Taggart. Chris. 2021-11-25. The euBusinessGraph ontology: A lightweight ontology for harmonizing basic company information. Semantic Web. 13. 1. 41–68. 10.3233/sw-210424. 2210-4968. free. 11250/2980609. free.
  13. Tiwari. Milind. Gepp. Adrian. Kumar. Kuldeep. 2021-10-20. Global money laundering appeal index: application of principal component analysis. Journal of Money Laundering Control. 26 . 205–211 . 10.1108/jmlc-10-2021-0108. 244618995 . 1368-5201.

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