Company identifiers (URIs)

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.

英国公司注册处开发了一项新服务，旨在提供基本的公司信息，并为每家在册公司分配一个简单的统一资源标识符（URI）。该URI是一个独特的网络地址，代表该公司（使用‘business.data.gov.uk’域名）；通过该URI可以获取该公司的基本信息。公司URI的开发与政府透明度议程相契合，旨在提供更便捷的公共数据访问方式；同时，它也将为用户和商业信息行业提供更高效的数据链接方式。数据将以请求系统适用的格式返回，通过内容协商实现（参见http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#r303gendocument）。返回的仅限于基本公司信息，例如：公司名称、注册办公地址、公司状态、成立日期、国籍、公司类型、业务性质（SIC）、会计参考日期、最近一次财务报表/年度报告提交日期、下一次财务报表/年度报告到期日期、曾用名称。