In 1993, Carl Malamud and others setup free online access to US corporate filings, as the SEC was charging for the information, much as Companies House does now. Two years later the SEC took over running the free online service themselves, reusing the same codebase Carl and others setup.
http://public.resource.org/sec.gov/ Matt, I led the team that created companiesopen.org and run that site now. Thanks for linking to it. I'm also working on WhosLobbying, which sounds a lot like LittleSis. We should meetup for a chat sometime. Rob On 19 April 2010 11:22, Matt Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > The whole site is there because we want the data to be open for groups like > MySociety, LittleSis, and other open projects who can't afford to spend £4k > on a snapshot from Companies House. The reason there are limits at all is > that we can't afford to keep buying the data and we wanted to allow for a > mechanism to fund the purchase of updated datasets. That said, I think having > totally free access to some gradually ageing data is still way better than > having limited access to up-to-date data. How we go about that is completely > up for debate, and I'd really like some ideas. I'm not particularly keen on > the logins because they mess with the API, so they'll probably go away soon. > > As for losing the space - it's looong gone. :) There's tonnes of companies > that sell Companies House appointment reports for a tenner or more. If we > compete at all, it'll be half-heartedly. Profit (or even breaking even) is > definitely not our aim here, we just wanted to get the data out there where > people can do Good Stuff™ with it. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
