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Technology

Open Ownership works with partners worldwide to develop technology products which use beneficial ownership data. These allow you to follow ownership or control structures wherever they lead, as the real value of information is unlocked once it can be used without borders.

  • Version 0.4 of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard is an open standard providing guidance for collecting, storing and exchanging high-quality data on beneficial ownership

  • Beneficial Ownership Data Standard visualisation library
    Tools Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Beneficial Ownership Data Standard visualisation library

    Automatically create beneficial ownership diagrams using Open Ownership’s open source data visualisation library

  • Beneficial Ownership Data Standard data analysis tools
    Tools Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Beneficial ownership data analysis tools

    Discover, download and analyse open beneficial ownership data republished in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Tools and support

  • Beneficial Ownership Data Standard data review tool
    Tools Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Beneficial Ownership Data Standard data review tool

    Check that your data complies with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) using our open source data review tool

  • RDF vocabulary for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
    Tools Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    RDF vocabulary for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    A Resource Description Framework (RDF) vocabulary for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

  • A Beneficial Ownership Visualisation System (BOVS) diagram
    Guidance

    Beneficial Ownership Visualisation System

    The Beneficial Ownership Visualisation System specifies how to illustrate beneficial ownership structures using diagrams

Latest publications

  • oo-report-history-of-open-ownership-register-2024-11-cover-image
    Publication Open Ownership Register

    Developing the world's first transnational open beneficial ownership register: A brief history of the Open Ownership Register

    After seven years of experimentation, we have closed the Open Ownership Register. Here, we share the history of the world’s first transnational open beneficial ownership register.

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh

    Published: 27 November 2024

  • OO User research guidance cover image
    Guidance

    A guide to doing user research for beneficial ownership systems

    This guide to doing user research is for all implementers of beneficial ownership registers – from in-house digital teams, to specialised contractors, to teams creating commercial off-the-shelf products.

    Written by Open Ownership

    Published: 24 October 2024

  • OO_ODS
    Technical guidance Beneficial Ownership Data Standard BODS showcase

    BODS red flags analysis

    Demonstrating how high-quality Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) data can support anti-money laundering investigations by highlighting risk factors which data users want to spot

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Kathryn Irish

    Published: 26 February 2024

Latest news

  • Global Open Data Integration Network (GODIN)
    News article Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    GLEIF and Open Ownership launch the Global Open Data Integration Network

    Open Ownership and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) are launching the Global Open Data Integration Network (GODIN) to foster open data practices and collaboration among organisations that publish open data or set open data standards.

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh

    Published: 06 March 2025

  • United Kingdom beneficial ownership data available in line with latest version of global standard news article cover image
    News article Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    United Kingdom beneficial ownership data available in line with latest version of global standard

    Beneficial ownership data for millions of companies registered in the United Kingdom and more than 30,000 overseas entities has been transformed and republished in line with the latest version of Open Ownership’s Beneficial Ownership Data Standard.

    Written by Rachel Vint, Ed Lloyd-Davies

    Published: 06 March 2025

  • OO_GLEIF
    News article Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Global legal entity ownership data available in line with latest version of data standard

    Corporate ownership data for millions of entities listed by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has been transformed and republished in line with the latest version of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard.

    Written by Kathryn Irish , Ed Lloyd-Davies

    Published: 02 March 2025

Latest blog posts

  • OECD Integrity Forum 2025
    Event

    Event: Open Ownership at the OECD Integrity Forum

    Open Ownership data analyst Maria Jofre will propose insights for anti-corruption policies across OECD member and non-member countries, using the OECD Public Integrity Indicators

    Written by Open Ownership

    Published: 24 March 2025

  • RDF vocabulary for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
    Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Updating the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard RDF vocabulary to help linked data users

    This blog post explains how Open Ownership and Open Data Services have updated the Resource Description Framework (RDF) vocabulary for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard to support people who want to use beneficial ownership data in a linked format.

    Written by Amy Guy

    Published: 11 March 2025

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    Emerging thinking

    Lessons from building a prototype single-search tool for beneficial ownership registers

    In this emerging thinking piece, our Data Support Manager Miranda Evans describes the lessons learned in a recent experiment by Open Ownership, building a prototype single-search tool for beneficial ownership registers.

    Written by Miranda Evans

    Published: 07 March 2025

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