[Portugal] [FYI] E-Government Core Vocabularies

[Fernanda Nery]

*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.*

> 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. *Core Vocabularies* 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.
>
> Three core vocabularies have been developed by the Core Vocabularies
> Working Group<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_business/document/core-vocabularies-working-group-members>following a process
> and methodology<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/document/isa-deliverable-process-and-methodology-developing-core-vocabularies>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:
>
>    1. Core Business Vocabulary<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_business/release/100>:
>    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;
>    2. Core Location Vocabulary<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_location/release/100>:
>    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;
>    3. Core Person Vocabulary<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_person/release/100>:
>    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.
>
>
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