# Foreword *This guidebook presents guidance, tools and activities to help organisations become trustworthy and trusted stewards of data. At the Open Data Institute (ODI), we understand data stewardship as the collection, maintenance and sharing of data. We outline 10 elements of trustworthy data stewardship which will help organisations assess their trustworthiness and the degree to which they are trusted, build trust and trustworthiness where necessary and demonstrate their trustworthiness to others.* --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://open-data-institute.gitbook.io/p22-trustworthy-data-stewardship-guidebook/-MW92wuAXMrYPE7sgA-M/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.