Company identifiers (URIs)

Published by:
Companies House
Last updated:
01 March 2013
Topic:
Government
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Summary

Companies House has developed a new service to supply basic company details, using a simple Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for each company on our register. The URI is a unique web address that represents the company (using the ‘business.data.gov.uk’ domain); and will return basic company details for that company.

The development of company URIs fits with the government transparency agenda of providing easier access to public data; and it will provide a more efficient way of data linking for users and the business information industry.

Data will be returned in the format appropriate to the requesting system using content negotiation (see http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#r303gendocument)

It will only be the basic company details, such as: company name, registered office address, company status, incorporation date, country of origin, company type, nature of business (SIC), accounting reference date, date of last accounts/annual return filed, date of next accounts/annual return due, previous names.

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Supporting documents

Link to the document Format Date added
About Companies House URIs PDF 01 March 2013
Home Page HTML 01 March 2013
Feedback survey HTML 01 March 2013

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Supplied under section 47 and 50 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and Schedule 1 of the Database Regulations (SI 1997/3032)

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