<div><strong>23 May 2012 - During a round-table meeting in Brussels, the
Coordination Group of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public
Administrations (ISA) Programme has endorsed four open specifications
for e-Government interoperability.</strong> <br></div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><p>Although there are many cross-border public services in the EU,
citizens and businesses are still not receiving them in a seamless and
efficient way. When citizens of one member state receive services in
another, the necessary exchange of data is often hampered by
incompatible data standards and specifications. <strong>Core Vocabularies</strong>
help describe data entities by defining their core components. When
applied in IT systems, these Core Vocabularies make data easier to reuse
and share and can be used as a starting point for developing new
electronic government (e-Government) services, helping to enable
interoperability between widely different IT systems across sectors and
borders.</p><p>Three core vocabularies have been developed by the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_business/document/core-vocabularies-working-group-members">Core Vocabularies Working Group</a> following a <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/document/isa-deliverable-process-and-methodology-developing-core-vocabularies">process and methodology</a>
based on W3C’s best practices. More than 60 people of 21 EU Member
States have participated in the Core Vocabularies work. The Core
Vocabularies were released for public review on February 17 2012, during
which over 20 comments were received. Version 1.00 of the
specifications, expressed in UML, XML, and RDF formats, was released to
the general public on 11 May 2012 and includes the following:</p><ol><li>
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_business/release/100">Core Business Vocabulary</a>:
this specification enables interoperability among business registers
and any other ICT based solutions exchanging and processing information
about businesses. The task force responsible for this vocabulary was
chaired by DG MARKT/F2, involved in the European Business Register
project;</li><li>
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_location/release/100">Core Location Vocabulary</a>:
this specification enables interoperability among land registers and
any other ICT based solution exchanging and processing location
information. The task force was chaired by JRC/H6 Digital Earth and
Reference Data;</li><li>
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_person/release/100">Core Person Vocabulary</a>:
this specification enables interoperability among people registers and
any other ICT based solutions exchanging and processing information
about people. The task force was chaired by Eurojust. Eurojust promotes
interoperability in the judicial domain via the EPOC IV project.</li></ol></blockquote>