Abstract

This vocabularium supports the Core Vocabularies. This vocabularium is hosted under the http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ namespace. It is maintained by the SEMIC action, Interoperable Europe.

Vocabulary Overview

The diagram below displays the consolidated Core Vocabularies diagram.

Classes

This section lists the classes matching the base namespace of this vocabularium.

Accounting Document

	Class	Accounting Document
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/AccountingDocument
	label	Accounting Document
	definition	Financial and non-financial information as a result of an activity of an organisation.
	usage	Accounting documents, might include: Financial statements (incl. the list of participating interests, subsidiary undertakings and associated undertakings, their registered office address and proportion of capital held), audit reports. Non-financial statements, management reports and other statements or reports. Annual financial reports.

Administrative Unit

	Class	Administrative Unit
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/AdminUnit
	label	Administrative Unit
	definition	A detailed administrative unit organized in a hierarchy.
	usage	This class should be used whenever a classification mechanism is in place, in alternative to the properties adminUnitL1 and adminUnitL2 of the Address class which allow free text.

Business Event

	Class	Business Event
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/BusinessEvent
	label	Business Event
	definition	A Business Event is a specific situation or event in the lifecycle of a business that fulfils one or more needs or (legal) obligations of that business at this specific point in time.
	usage	A Business Event requires a set of public services to be delivered and consumed in order for the associated business need(s) or obligation(s) to be fulfilled. Business Events are defined within the context of a particular Member State. In other words, a Business Event groups together a number of public services that need to be delivered for completing that particular event.
	subclass of

Channel

	Class	Channel
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Channel
	label	Channel
	definition	A medium through which an Agent provides, uses or interacts in another way with a Public Service.
	usage	Typical examples include online services, phone, walk-in centres etc.

Contact Point

	Class	Contact Point
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint
	label	Contact Point
	definition	Information (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number) of a person or department through which the user can get in touch with.
	usage	The Core Public Organization Vocabulary defines properties for telephone number, e-mail address and opening hours although it is noteworthy that the class is based on schema.org's ContactPoint class that has additional properties that some implementations may find useful.

Cost

	Class	Cost
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Cost
	label	Cost
	definition	The Cost class represents any costs related to the execution of a Public Service that the Agent consuming it needs to pay.

Event

	Class	Event
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Event
	label	Event
	definition	This class represents an event that can be of any type that triggers, makes use of, or in some way is related to, a Public Service.
	usage	It is not expected to be used directly, rather, one or other of its subclasses should be used. The properties of the class are, of course, inherited by those subclasses. The Event class is used as a hook either to a single related Public Service, such as diagnosis of illness being related to application for sickness benefit; or to a group of Public Services, such as all those related to the establishment of a new business.

Generic date

	Class	Generic date
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/GenericDate
	label	Generic date
	definition	The date data type is the union of xs:date, xs:gYearMonth and xs:gYear

Image Object

	Class	Image Object
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ImageObject
	label	Image Object
	definition	A logo to describe / represent an entity.

Life Event

	Class	Life Event
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/LifeEvent
	label	Life Event
	definition	The Life Event class represents an important event or situation in a citizen's life where public services are required.
	usage	Note on the scope: an individual will encounter any number of 'events'; in the general sense of the word. In the context of the CPSV-AP, the Life Event class only represents an event to which a Public Service is related. For example, a couple becoming engaged is not a CPSV-AP Life Event, getting married is, since only the latter has any relevance to public services.
	subclass of

Output

	Class	Output
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Output
	label	Output
	definition	An output can be any resource - document, artefact - anything produced by the Public Service. In the context of a Public Service, the output provides an official document or other artefact of the Competent Authority (Public Organization) that permits/authorises/entitles an Agent to (do) something.
	usage	In some cases, the Output of one Public Service will be used as evidence to fulfil a requirement of another Public Service. Such relationships should be described in the associated Rule(s).

Participation

	Class	Participation
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Participation
	label	Participation
	definition	The Participation class allows to define roles within a certain context.

Public Event

	Class	Public Event
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	label	Public Event
	definition	Something that happens at a particular place and time, organised by one or more agents for a particular purpose, and is of interest to a general audience. This definition excludes natural events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Public Organisation

	Class	Public Organisation
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicOrganisation
	label	Public Organisation
	definition	An Organization that is defined as being part of the public sector by a legal framework at any level.
	usage	Organizations which exist to provide services for its citizens and companies are called Public Organizations. The Public Organization class represents the organization. One organization may comprise several sub-organizations and any organization may have one or more organizational units. Each of these is described using the same properties and relationships. This definition is consistent with the more detailed definition of a "public sector body" as given in the PSI Directive: "the State, regional or local authorities, bodies governed by public law and associations formed by one or several such authorities or one or several such bodies governed by public law". It further defines a body governed by public law as any body "(a) established for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, not having an industrial or commercial character; and (b) having legal personality; and (c) financed, for the most part by the State, or regional or local authorities, or other bodies governed by public law; or subject to management supervision by those bodies; or having an administrative, managerial or supervisory board, more than half of whose members are appointed by the State, regional or local authorities or by other bodies governed by public law".
	subclass of

Reference Framework

	Class	Reference Framework
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ReferenceFramework
	label	Reference Framework
	definition	Legislation or official policy from which Requirements are derived.
	usage	Usual Reference Frameworks are legal and non-legal specifications. Examples include procedures, tendering legislation, etc.

Service Concession Contract

	Class	Service Concession Contract
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ServiceConcessionContract
	label	Service Concession Contract
	definition	Concessions are contracts for pecuniary interest by means of which one or more contracting authorities or contracting entities entrusts the execution of works, or the provision and the management of services, to one or more economic operators.
	usage	The object of such contracts is the procurement of works or services by means of a concession, the consideration of which consists in the right to exploit the works or services or in that right together with payment. Such contracts may, but do not necessarily, involve a transfer of ownership to contracting authorities or contracting entities, but contracting authorities or contracting entities always obtain the benefits of the works or services in question. The definition comes from the Directive 2014/23/EU.

Properties

This section lists the properties matching the base namespace of this vocabularium.

accessibility

	Property	accessibility
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/accessibility
	label	accessibility
	definition	Information about how the Public Event can be approached, reached or entered, in particular for people with special needs.
	usage	This property may be provided in multiple languages with multiple instances of the accessibility property.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	range	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString

audience

	Property	audience
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/audience
	label	audience
	definition	The target group of people for whom the Public Event is created.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

code

	Property	code
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/code
	label	code
	definition	The classification of the administrative unit.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/AdminUnit
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

contact page

	Property	contact page
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/contactPage
	label	contact page
	definition	A web page that could be used to reach out the Contact Point.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint
	range	http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Document

currency

	Property	currency
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/currency
	label	currency
	definition	The currency in which the Cost needs to be paid and the value of the Cost is expressed.
	usage	The possible values for this property are described in the controlled vocabulary Currency Authority Table of Publications Office.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Cost
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

date of birth

	Property	date of birth
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/birthDate
	label	date of birth
	definition	The point in time on which the Person was born.
	usage	The date of birth could be expressed as date, gYearMonth or gYear, example: - 1980-09-16^^xs:date - 1980-09^^xs:gYearMonth - 1980^^xs:gYear
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/person#Person
	range	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/GenericDate

date of death

	Property	date of death
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/deathDate
	label	date of death
	definition	The point in time on which the Person died.
	usage	The date of birth could be expressed as date, gYearMonth or gYear, example: - 1980-09-16^^xs:date - 1980-09^^xs:gYearMonth - 1980^^xs:gYear
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/person#Person
	range	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/GenericDate

event number

	Property	event number
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/eventNumber
	label	event number
	definition	The sequence position of the Public Event.
	usage	Examples could be the ''4th" or "2022".
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	range	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString

event status

	Property	event status
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/eventStatus
	label	event status
	definition	This property defines the overall status of the event.
	usage	The recomended code list is the Event Status Controlled vocabulary maintained by the Publications Office of the EU.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

expected number of participants

	Property	expected number of participants
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/expectedNumberOfParticipants
	label	expected number of participants
	definition	The number of participants expected to participate in the event.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	range	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer

format

	Property	format
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/format
	label	format
	definition	A plan of organisation or arrangement of the Public Event.
	usage	Examples include conference call, physical meeting or hybrid.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

gender

	Property	gender
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/gender
	label	gender
	definition	The identities, expressions and societal roles of the Person.
	usage	The gender of an individual should be recorded using a controlled vocabulary that is appropriate for the specific context. In some cases, the chromosomal or physical state of an individual will be more important than the gender that they express, in others the reverse will be true. What is always important is that the controlled vocabulary used to describe an individual's gender is stated explicitly.
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/person#Person
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

has email

	Property	has email
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/email
	label	has email
	definition	An electronic address through which the Contact Point can be contacted.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint
	range	http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Literal

has telephone

	Property	has telephone
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/telephone
	label	has telephone
	definition	A telephone number through which the Contact Point can be contacted.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint
	range	http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Literal

has value

	Property	has value
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/hasValue
	label	has value
	definition	A numeric value indicating the amount of the Cost.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Cost
	range	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double

latitude

	Property	latitude
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/latitude
	label	latitude
	definition	The geographic coordinate that specifies the north / south position of the Geomerty on the Earth's surface.
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Geometry
	range	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

level

	Property	level
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/level
	label	level
	definition	The level of the administrative unit in the hierarchy.
	usage	The recommended code list to indicate the level of an Admin Unit is the Administrative territorial unit type Controlled Vocabulary maintained by the Publications Office of the EU.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/AdminUnit
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

longitude

	Property	longitude
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/longitude
	label	longitude
	definition	The geographic coordinate that specifies the east / west position of the Geometry on the Earth's surface.
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Geometry
	range	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

matronymic name

	Property	matronymic name
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/matronymicName
	label	matronymic name
	definition	Name based on the given name of the Person's mother.
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/person#Person
	range	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString

processing time

	Property	processing time
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/processingTime
	label	processing time
	definition	The (estimated) time needed for executing a Public Service which may depend on the Channel chosen.
	usage	The actual information is provided using the ISO8601 syntax for durations.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Channel
	range	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#duration

registration date

	Property	registration date
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/registrationDate
	label	registration date
	definition	The date on which the legal entity has registered in some jurisdiction for regulatory and / or for tax purposes.
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/legal#LegalEntity
	range	http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date

registration page

	Property	registration page
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/registrationPage
	label	registration page
	definition	A web page that provides means to attend the Public Event.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent
	range	http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Document

role

	Property	role
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/role
	label	role
	definition	The function of an Agent within a Participation.
	domain	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Participation
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

sex

	Property	sex
	URI	http://data.europa.eu/m8g/sex
	label	sex
	definition	The organism's biological sex.
	usage	The recommended controlled vocabulary for this property is the sex authority table of the Publications Office.
	domain	http://www.w3.org/ns/person#Person
	range	http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept