What is the Core Location Vocabulary?
The Core Location Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a location, represented as an address, a geographic name, or a geometry.
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Description
The SEMIC Core Vocabularies are the starting point for developing interoperable e-Government systems as it allows mappings with existing data models. The guarantees Public Administrations to attain cross-border and cross-sector interoperability.
The Core Location Vocabulary is one of the Core Vocabularies that have been developed by the SEMIC action of the former ISA² Programme, which is now named Interoperable Europe. The specification is developed in an open process with the active involvement of the SEMIC action stakeholders including: The e-Government Core Vocabularies Working Group (with a total of 69 people from 22 countries, 19 EU and 3 non-EU countries (USA, South-Africa, and Norway), and several EU Institutions and the Directorate-General for Digital Services: DG DIGIT.
The current version of the Core Location Vocabulary is 2.0.2. The latest editor draft of the Core Location Vocabulary is 2.1.0. Both versions can be downloaded on GitHub.
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Benefits
The Core Location Vocabulary provides a minimum set of classes and properties for describing a location represented as an address, a geographic name, or a geometry. This specification enables interoperability among land registers and any other ICT based solution exchanging and processing location information.
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Version information
- On the first of February 2024, the editors draft of version 2.1.0 was released for public review.
- On 16 May 2023, version 2.0.2 was released.
- In April 2021 a new public review cycle of the Core Person Vocabulary, Core Business Vocabulary, Core Location Vocabulary and Core Public Organisation Vocabulary started. After a series of five webinars, version 2.0.0 of the Core Location Vocabulary was released.
- On 23 May 2012 the Coordination Group of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme has endorsed the Core Business, Core Location and Core Person Vocabulary.
- On 7 May 2012 version 1.00 of the combined specification of Core Business, Core Location and Core Person Vocabulary was released.
- From November 2011 until February 2012 version 0.2 was developed.
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Development and maintenance process
The applicable policy regarding the development and maintenance process of the Core Location Vocabulary is available here.
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Reuse of the Core Location Vocabulary
The list below includes countries and organisations that reuse or promote the use of the Core Location Vocabulary.
- Fi-Core & Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland in the Data Vocabularies Tool.
- The Electronic Administration Portal (PAE) of Spain.
- The International Hellenic University of Greece for research purposes.
- DIGST of Denmark in their common digital public architecture.
- The Center of Semantic Intergration of Russia.
- The Social Insurance Institute (ZUS) of Poland for research purposes.
- The National Interoperability Framework of Slovenia.
- The Dutch Governmental Reference Architecture.
- The Once-Only Principle Project (TOOP) as part of their backend.
- The Agency for Digital Italy (AGID) and their extension of the Core Location Vocabulary.
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Get involved!
Do you want to participate in the work of our Core Vocabularies Working Group? Share your comments and change requests via the GitHub Core Location Vocabulary repository.
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