[okfn-hu] Hungarian company register?

Thu Mar 31 08:01:13 UTC 2011

Does that mean that the companies who have copies of this are
redistributing the database without problems? Does this in turn mean
that one could scrape the database and put online?

All the best,

Jonathan

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:52 AM, David Kitzinger <kitzinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Ministry of Public Administration and Justice is responsible for the
> Companies'  Registry. It was outsourced to Opten (www.cegtar.hu). They have
> gained a monopoly for a supposedly reduced digitization fee. The previous
> gov. ordered to open it up. So you can access basic services behind a
> captcha wall. Those companies that had sufficient resources employed
> administrators to retrieve the whole database. Now there is a competition on
> this market and citizens can access basic information for free. However this
> database offers only non-authorized information. This is a huge achievement
> compared to the first 15 years of freedom in Hungary.
> http://www.e-cegjegyzek.hu/index.html
> No stakeholder is really interested in providing data for easy access or
> statistical analysis.
> best
> David
> On 2011.03.31., at 0:18, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
> Does anyone know anything about the status of the companies registry in
> Hungary?
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/30/bounties-for-scrapers-a-new-approach-to-opening-global-data/
>
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