Archive for the openly local Tag

Now corporations get the open data treatment

In September I blogged about Chris Taggart’s website Open Charities, which opened up data from the Charity Commission website. Today Taggart – along with Rob McKinnon – launches Open Corporates, which opens up companies information. This is a huge undertaking, but a vital one. As the site’s About page explains: “Few parts of the corporate world are limited to a single country,
Read more…

Charities data opened up – journalists: say thanks.

Having made significant inroads in opening up council and local election data, Chris Taggart has now opened up charities data from the less-than-open Charity Commission website. The result: a new website – Open Charities. The man deserves a round of applause. Charity data is enormously important in all sorts of ways – and is likely to become more so as
Read more…