Getting started

Participation begins with human approval and a recipient-specific invitation. A public expression of interest does not confer membership, Microsoft access, a vote or standards authority.

From interest to participation

Register through the public form or be nominated through an approved roster.
OPDA reviews the person, organisation, intended group and appropriate sign-in identity.
For an implemented workspace, OPDA provisions the guest identity and Team membership.
Eligible company-domain participants receive access to their organisation's private source-intake folder.
OPDA sends a recipient-specific invitation only after it has checked the access state.

The live Team roster is the participant authority for an implemented workspace. SharePoint permissions are derived from it; a folder or website page is not a separate membership register.

Use the account that was invited

Open the invitation intended for you and sign in with the email account that received it.
Do not forward or reuse the recipient-specific access link.
If the identity is wrong, stop and ask OPDA to correct it instead of creating a competing account.
Follow your organisation's security and device policies; do not bypass its controls.

Teams and SharePoint access differ

Account situation	Teams discussion	SharePoint evidence intake
Approved company-domain account	May be invited to the private Microsoft Team.	May receive the matching private organisation folder.
Approved generic-provider account	May be invited to discuss and review.	No provider-wide company folder is created.
Expression of interest only	No access until human review and invitation.	No access.

A generic-provider account can participate in Teams but cannot define a safe organisation-wide SharePoint boundary. Arrange an approved company contributor if your organisation needs upload access.

First-day checklist

Read General or Announcements for orientation and official notices.
Review the channel directory and choose the most specific channel for a subject.
Read the working group's scope, Evidence, Questions and Review pages on this site.
Check existing threads before starting a new discussion.
If contributing evidence, read the source-material rules before uploading anything.

What members own

Domain and scheme participants contribute evidence, explain language and rules, challenge examples and judge whether a candidate represents their work. Modelling facilitators make that meaning explicit and machine-readable. The Interoperability Working Group handles shared boundaries and mappings. The separate Technology Working Group supplies implementation and technical-assurance evidence; Property Technology remains one of the six property bounded contexts.

Access and administration support

For an additional colleague, an identity correction or a private access problem, email smartdata@openpropdata.org.uk with the relevant group, names, email addresses and organisations. Email is an administration route, not a parallel group discussion list.