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. the name, the gender, the date of birth, the location etc.
What are the benefits of using the Core Person Vocabulary?
This specification enables interoperability among registers and any other ICT based solutions exchanging and processing person-related information.
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Core Person Vocabulary key milestones
- 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 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.
- On 7 May 2012 version 1.00 of the combined specification of Core Business,
- From November 2011 until February 2012 version 0.2 was developed.
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Do you want to participate in the work of our Core Vocabularies Working Group? Share your comments and change requests via the GitHub Core Person Vocabulary repository.