Last year, Open Ownership and Open Data Services talked to a range of people who had looked at or used BODS for their projects. It was apparent that policy and technical teams are engaging with BODS in a number of ways, even if they’ve not got the immediate aim of ‘publishing BODS data’. They are using it:
- As a gateway to understanding beneficial ownership
- As a data model with a high level of abstraction - ie when you need a generic data-sharing solution
- For hints about how to represent beneficial ownership information as structured data
- To explore the feasibility of beneficial ownership reforms
As a result, we reviewed the current documentation to see what improvements we might make (outside a version release) to support teams who are trying to understand beneficial ownership and take lessons from the standard.
We think the following improvements to the Primer will help readers:
- An updated 'What is beneficial ownership?' page (similar to the pre 0.4 page)
- An updated 'What is BODS?' page
- An updated key concepts page, moved to the primer as 'What key concepts are represented in BODS data?'
- A new 'What is the BODS data model?' page
Last year, Open Ownership and Open Data Services talked to a range of people who had looked at or used BODS for their projects. It was apparent that policy and technical teams are engaging with BODS in a number of ways, even if they’ve not got the immediate aim of ‘publishing BODS data’. They are using it:
As a result, we reviewed the current documentation to see what improvements we might make (outside a version release) to support teams who are trying to understand beneficial ownership and take lessons from the standard.
We think the following improvements to the Primer will help readers: