German Company Register Data Now Available as Open Data From OpenCorporates

From OpenCorporates:

Today, OpenCorporates has made the German company register data – a dataset that’s essential for all – available as open data. This opening up of the company register data is a significant step forward in German corporate transparency and integrity. As part of the analysis, we have identified a number of data quality issues – including problems with corporate identifiers, and directors who wer eapparently born 950 years ago. We will be writing a report for the Ministry of Justice regarding these data quality issues, and will be making this available under an open data licence too.

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Over the past 12 months, we’ve collected and analysed the data on the company gazette (Handelsregisterbekanntmachungen), and Handelsregister (trade register) . Converting this information – mostly from gazette notices – took months of writing code, analysis and testingto convert into structured data in a consistent and high-quality form.

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