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
arrayentity 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