List of registered (limited liability) companies. The submissions in this data category do not need to include detailed financial data such as balance sheet, etc. Open data from company registers may be used for many ends: e.g. enabling customers and businesses to see with whom they deal, or to see where a company has registered offices. This definition draws on the work of OpenCorporates.
| Data location | https://avoindata.prh.fi/index_en.html - This website contains open data published by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) |
| Data licence | https://avoindata.prh.fi/index_en.html |
| Data format | JSON |
| Reviewer | Evangelia Kampouri |
| Submitters | Mika Honkanen |
| Last modified | Thu Nov 10 2016 15:54:40 GMT+0000 (UTC) |
Your submission is valid. Thank you very much for contributing to the Global Open Data Index. Open data are published by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and the Public Administration Recommendations (JHS recommendations) are applied to the material. All 4 required characteristics were found online: Finland's companies' names, addresses and unique identifiers are included in a machine-readable format, and are free of charge and freely available (https://avoindata.prh.fi/index_en.html). The data are updated once a day and can be accessed over HTTP, and Javascript Object Notation (JSON) is used for transmitting the data. However, the data are available through a search mask and it is necessary to know the name or business ID of an entity in order to find it. Basic company information including business ID and address can also be searched for directly on the Finnish Patent and Registration Office's website for free (https://virre.prh.fi/novus/companySearch). However, this time the data are in HTML format and are still available through a search mask so again, it is necessary to know the name or business ID of an entity in order to find it. Accessing more detailed information requires payment.