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Representing alternative languages

Beneficial ownership information may need to be provided in different languages or scripts. BODS provides options for representing translated or transliterated information.

To represent:

  • people’s names, use an entry in the names array with name.type ‘translation’ or ‘transliteration’

  • entity names, use an entry in the alternativeNames array

  • entity types use entityType.details

  • interest types use interest.details

For other fields or entire records, use an annotation.

In the annotation:

  • motivation MUST be ‘transformation’

  • description SHOULD explain the type of transformation (e.g. ‘translation’)

  • transformedContent MUST contain the transformed content