What is the Core Public Organisation Vocabulary?
The Core Public Organisation Vocabulary provides a common data model for describing public organisations in the European Union.
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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 Public Organisation 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 Public Organisation Vocabulary is 2.1.0. The latest editor draft of the Core Public Organisation Vocabulary is 2.1.1. Both can be downloaded at GitHub.
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Benefits
The Core Public Organisation Vocabulary facilitates the process for institutions publishing data about public organisations. It can be enriched with sector- or country-specific information.
The Core Public Organisation Vocabulary (CPOV) addresses specific needs of businesses, public administrations, and citizens across the European Union, including the following use cases:
- Facilitate information sharing: CPOV enables G2G (Government-to-Government), G2B (Government-to-Business) and G2C (Government-to-Citizen) information sharing.
- Facilitate the development of common information systems: the use of existing data models for the development of common information systems facilitates the development of those systems and improves their interoperability.
- Linked Open Organograms: CPOV has the potential to link organograms to each other and to high-value data sets.
- Cross border information exchange: CPOV allows to manage a cross-border repository of public services and organisations.
- Find a PO by its function: the public organisation portfolio facilitates discovery of which public authorities and departments are responsible for given areas of the public task.
- Increase efficiency: CPOV helps to identify where responsibilities and functions are duplicated or overlap.
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Version information
- On the first of February 2024, the editors draft of version 2.1.1 was released for public review.
- On 15 May 2023, version 2.1.0 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 Public Organisation Vocabulary was released.
- On 19 December 2016 version 1.00 of the Core Public Organisation Vocabulary was released.
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Development and maintenance process
The applicable policy regarding the development and maintenance process of the Core Public Organisation Vocabulary is available here.
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Reuse of the Core Public Organisation Vocabulary
The list below includes countries and organisations that reuse or promote the use of the Core Public Organisation 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 Integration 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 Core Organisation Vocabulary.
- Digital Flanders from Belgium and their Organisation Ontology.
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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 Public Organisation Vocabulary repository.
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