Is CRO blocking OpenCorporates's URL?

[Denis Parfenov]

Hi all,

In continuation of Kildare str saga and ICYMI

 Chris Taggart, a leading proponent of the open data movement and a gatherer of information on close to 50m businesses worldwide via his OpenCorporates.com site, has told Siliconrepublic.com that the Companies Registration Office, not Iris Oifigiuil as originally reported, has blocked his IP address, preventing him adding information on businesses to his site.

In Taggart’s case, opening publicly available information and data on businesses to a wider audience via the internet will empower other businesses and consumers to make correct decisions based around how solvent a company is, the history of its directors, and so on..

Everything we gather is all about the public record,” Taggart explained. “It’s about making public records usable.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/30011-open-data-obstacle-opencor 

"Accident" again?

Great news for Open Data Ireland: Chris Taggart kindly agreed to take part in our 2nd Open Data Meetup on November, 22nd and to share his experiences of liberating data from the Irish state and govts around the world.
https://twitter.com/CountCulture/status/265883987271094272

Looking forward to see you all on 22nd.

In the meantime keep an eye on:
-  #opendataIRL on twitter

- opendataIRL on Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/OpenDataIRL/

- list of suggested speakers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUpNv1ZWNoDdE93ejZMUm9OZXEzcjhuVnJ1YUhxRlE#gid=0

- OpenDataIRL Suggestion Page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tp6J2Z45tYU5po8aHnYJT1p35CRTDbCBPe2h7rYJ7r0/edit

Best regards,

Denis Parfenov

[Gavin Sheridan]

Extremely stringent terms of use from the CRO? 

Gavin

On 9 Nov 2012, at 23:24, Jason Roe <jaso...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was taking to someone who was close to this issue. Basically his scraper was causing issues with the CRO services at peak times during the day.

 

A good work around would be to use the API that has been available since June'ish

 

https://services.cro.ie/

 

Jason.