Core Business Vocabulary

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Description

The Core Business Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a legal entity, e.g. the legal name, the activity, address, ...

The Core Business Vocabulary has now been formally published on the W3C standards track as a First Public Working Draft. It has been revised and renamed into Registered Organization Vocabulary (RegOrg). >> Read more

Motivation

E-Government Core Vocabularies are the starting point for developing interoperable e-Government systems as it allows mappings with existing data models. This guarantees Public Administrations to attain cross-border and cross-sector interoperability. Please refer to the eGovernment Core Vocabularies paper on the approach and benefits of Core Concepts for further background.

Core Vocabularies Working Group

The Core Business Vocabulary is one of the three Core Vocabularies that have been developed in the context of Action 1.1 of the ISA Programme. The specification is developed by a multi disciplinary Working Group, with a total of 69 people from 22 countries, 18 EU and 4 non-EU countries (USA, South-Africa, Norway and Croatia), and several EU Institutions.

Milestones

From November 2011 till February 2012 version 0.2 was developed.
On 17 February 2012 version 0.2 entered a month-long public review period, ending on 16 March 2012.
In March 2012 all comments of the public review period were discussed in a Working Group meeting.
On 7 May 2012 version 1.00 of the combined specification of Core Business, Core Location and Core Person Vocabulary was released.
On 23 May 2012, the Coordination Group of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme has endorsed version 1.00 of the combined specification of Core Business, Core Location and Core Person Vocabulary.

Known implementations

Core Business Vocabulary-compliant RDF description of a company on OpenCorporates
Owner: OpenCorporates
Date: June 2012

Greek Tax Authorities business registry published as linked open data using core business and core location
Owner: International Hellenic University
Date: June 2012

Related news

2012-09-03 - Over 43 million companies described with the Core Business Vocabulary
2012-07-30 - New EU Directive on Interconnecting Business Registers
2012-06-07 - opencorporates.com presents the value of an open identifying system for companies
2012-05-30 - ISA Member State representatives endorse key specifications for e-Government interoperability
2012-05-22 - ISA presentation about enabling data interoperability on the European Data Forum 2012
2012-05-11 - Version 1.00 of the Core Business, Core Location and Core Person Vocabulary released today
2012-04-06 - W3C GLD Working Group opens first public working drafts for comments
2012-03-27 - Key specifications for interoperability developed by the EU’s Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administration (ISA) Programme to become W3C standards
2012-02-17 - EU Working Group seeks public comments on e-Government Core Vocabularies
2011-12-22 - EU - BUSINESSEUROPE's report: evaluating the Points of Single Contact
2011-12-14 - The ADMS and Core Vocabularies projects are now available on Joinup
2011-11-18 - DG MARKT confirms its participation in the Core Vocabularies Working Group
2011-10-12 - The ISA Programme is pursuing its work on Core Vocabularies
2011-08-08 - Case study on Core Vocabularies