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EuroVoc freely available via the EU Open Data Portal
EuroVoc, the EU's multilingual thesaurus, was recently made directly downloadable from the EU Open Data Portal. In the past, EuroVoc was already available under an open licence. However, to download…
NEWSCreated: 31/03/2014
EBA publishes XBRL taxonomy for remittance of supervisory reporting
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published XBRL taxonomy for remittance of data under the Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) related to supervisory reporting. Uniform data formats are…
NEWSCreated: 03/01/2014
Publication of the Core Business Vocabulary as RegOrg on the W3C standards track
An RDF syntax of the Core Business Vocabulary has now been formally published on the W3C standards track as a First Public Working Draft. It has been revised and renamed into Registered Organization…
NEWSCreated: 09/01/2013
UK - Companies House reduced its fees on 1 October 2012
Companies House has recently reviewed its processes and services. As a result of the review, the organisation has decided to reduce some of its fees from 1 October 2012. Companies House is a registry…
NEWSCreated: 03/10/2012
Core business and core location vocabularies piloted in Greece
The metadata descriptions of more than 28000 companies registered in the Greek Tax Authorities business registry have been published as linked open data using the core business and core location…
NEWSCreated: 26/09/2012
Over 43 million companies described with the Core Business Vocabulary
Only one month after the release of version 1.00, OpenCorporates was the first to deliver an implementation of the Core Business Vocabulary. The Core Business Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and…
NEWSCreated: 03/09/2012
New EU Directive on Interconnecting Business Registers
On 13 June 2012, the European Parliament has adopted a new Directive (2012/17/EU) aimed at setting up a system for the interconnection of Business Registers. The Directive underscores the need for a…
NEWSCreated: 30/07/2012
opencorporates.com presents the value of an open identifying system for companies
Copenhagen - 7 June 2012. At the European Data Forum (EDF) 2012, opencorporates.com founder Chris Taggart presented the added-value of an open identifying system for companies. Through his involvement…
NEWSCreated: 07/06/2012
Mind the Lexical Gap
The Publications Office is holding a two-day conference in November to present the latest developments on the multilingual EuroVoc thesaurus. EuroVoc Conference 18-19 November 2010Jean Monnet Building…
NEWSCreated: 06/10/2010
Transport: Car registration network a frontrunner in information sharing
EUCARIS, the European Car and Driving Licence Information System and winner of the 2008 iG 2.0 award, has joined SEMIC.EU as a partner project. Starting from a base of five countries, the system has…
NEWSCreated: 24/10/2008