The original CPSV-AP was prepared in the context of Action 2016.29 – Accessing Member State information resources at European level – Catalogue of Services[1] of the European Commission’s Interoperability for European Public Administrations (ISA) programme[2]. The CPSV-AP has been seen as a first step for creating a model for describing public services related to business and life events, to facilitate the set-up of catalogues of services oriented to businesses and citizens.

This document defines an update to the Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile version 2.1 (CPSV-AP v2.2). The update finds its motivation in the experience of implementing version 2.1 of the CPSV-AP by different MSs and stakeholders and consequent requests received from them in GitHub[3] or during webinars[4] and the workshop organised in Sofia[5].

The main updates of this version are:

• The replacement of the class Formal Framework and its properties by Legal Resource from the ELI ontology[6].
• The addition of property thematic Area and the relationships for the class Public Service.
• The addition of the Concept and Collection classes. 

To find out more about the process and methodology that was followed, the Working Group, its members and the tools that supported the process, visit the following page:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/43160

[1] European Commission. Interoperability for European Public Administrations (ISA). Accessing Member State information resources at European level. http://ec.europa.eu/isa/actions/01-trusted-information-exchange/1-3action_en.htm

[2] European Commission. Interoperability for European Public Administrations (ISA). http://ec.europa.eu/isa/index_en.htm

[3] https://github.com/catalogue-of-services-isa/CPSV-AP/issues

[4] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/event/catalogue-services-webinar-reuse-and-implementation-cpsv-ap-19-march-2018 and https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/event/catalogue-services-webinar-reuse-and-implementation-cpsv-ap-23-april-2018

[5] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/event/catalogue-services-workshop-15-june-back-back-semic-2018

[6] http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/eli/