Core Person Vocabulary

What is the Core Person Vocabulary? The Core Person Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a person, e.g. their name, their gender, their date of birth, their address, etc. Description 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…

Stickiness of names

The current text makes assertions about the stickiness of names that may not be appropriate. Proposal: remove text asserting stickiness of names Component Miscellaneous Category feature

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Residency

It has been pointed out that residency is different from citizenship. Proposal: add new property of residency linking to a class that will represent a legal entity able to confer such datus. Consider…

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Citizenship

Paul Davidson points out that citizenship is conferred on an individual by a legal entity, not a location. Danny Delcambre finds our use of ISO 3166 codes less than clear. Proposal: create a new class…

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Handling gender

Paul Davidson (on behalf of the UK government) endorses the use of the ISO codes. Danny Delcambre (Eurostat) suggests we use the list provided by Eurostat which is very similar to the one in the spec…

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Name granulariry

Paul Davidson's (detailed) comments argue that we should drop all granularity in names and just retain the full name field. Proposal: drop all fields for parts of namaes, retaining only full name…

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Cardinality Restrictions

Several comments have indicated problems with the cardinality restrictions. Some suggest that the spec is too restrictive (having only one full name, for example). Others say it's too liberal (because…

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Juridical Capability

Eddy Vanderlinden has suggested the inclusion of a Juridical Capability property. When asked for more background he compared this with the Business Vocabulary's property of status and argued for its…

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Fiscal Residence

Eddy Vanderlinden suggsted the includion of a Fiscal Residennce property. When asked whether he felt that this was sufficiently 'core' to be included he put forward a series reasoned arguments as to…

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