Data Standard Working Group Meeting - September 2024

What is the Working Group?

Open Ownership holds virtual group meetings of its Data Standard Working Group Community quarterly. The group comprises data experts, beneficial ownership specialists and other interested parties who provide advice and help guide the development of Open Ownership’s Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS).

In June, Open Ownership and Open Data Services finished work on version 0.4 of BODS. It has now been translated into Spanish, Russian and - for the first time - French. Read our June 2024 blog post to learn about the key new features in version 0.4, or visit our public release tracker on Github.

What will we discuss on the call?

There will be updates from Open Ownership and Open Data Services about the development of BODS and related open source tools, as well as news about other publishers who are releasing BODS datasets:

• Release of version 0.4 of BODS in June 2024
• Updating data review tool, visualisation library and RDF vocabulary to handle v0.4 data
• Sharing news about publishers implementing BODS
• Continuing to develop BODS towards a version 1.0

Why does BODS matter?

BODS is the leading global open standard providing guidance for collecting, sharing and using high-quality data on beneficial ownership.

Anonymously-owned companies facilitate corruption, including transnational illicit financial flows. This challenge requires a transnational solution where a range of stakeholders have access to standardised data from across the world that can be easily linked to better prevent, detect, and combat systemic corruption. Connecting BO data transnationally with other BO and relevant datasets would mean that it can be more easily used by a range of anti-corruption actors to better prevent, detect, and combat corruption. Interoperable data, for example data structured according to BODS, could make this a reality.

Interested?

Would you like to be involved in pushing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard forward? You can join the group and stay up to date by signing up here. Virtual group meetings are held quarterly.

Join the next community call

When? 25 September 2024, 12:00 UTC

Where? Register for the Zoom call here