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The Core Public Event Vocabulary provides a minimum set of classes and properties for describing a public event , i.e. 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.
This Core Vocabulary has the status SEMIC Recommendation published at 2024-05-06.
Information about the process and the decisions involved in the creation of this specification are consultable at the Changelog.
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A Core Vocabulary (CV) is a basic, reusable and extensible data specification that captures the fundamental characteristics of an entity in a context-neutral fashion. Its main objective is to provide terms to be reused in the broadest possible context. More information can be found on the SEMIC Style Guide.
This specification uses the following prefixes to shorten the URIs for readibility.Prefix | Namespace IRI |
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cv | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ |
dct | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
foaf | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ |
locn | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn# |
rdf | http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# |
rdfs | http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# |
skos | http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# |
time | http://www.w3.org/2006/time# |
xsd | http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema# |
This document describes the usage of the following main entities for a correct usage of the Core Vocabulary:
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Address |
Contact Point |
Participation |
Public Event |
The main entities are supported by:
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Agent |
Document |
Linguistic System |
Temporal Entity |
And supported by these datatypes:
| Code | Integer | Literal | Text |
Property | Range | Card | Definition | Usage | ||
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address area | Text | 0..* | The name of a geographic area that groups Addresses. | This would typically be part of a city, a neighbourhood or village, e.g. Montmartre. Address area is not an administrative unit. | ||
address ID | Literal | 0..* | A globally unique identifier for each instance of an Address. |
The concept of adding a globally unique identifier for each instance of an address is a crucial part of the INSPIRE data spec. A number of EU countries have already implemented an ID (a UUID) in their Address Register/gazetteer, among them Denmark. OASIS xAL also includes an address identifier. It is the address Identifier that allows an address to be represented in a format other than INSPIRE whilst remaining conformant to the Core Vocabulary.
The INSPIRE method of representing addresses is very detailed, designed primarily for use in databases of addresses. Whilst data that is published in full conformance with the INSPIRE data structure can be made available using theCore Location Vocabulary the reverse is not true since the Core Vocabulary allows much greater flexibility. Many datasets that include address data as one piece of information about something else are likely to have that data in simpler formats. These might be tailored to the specific need of the dataset, follow a national norm, or make use of a standard like vCard. To provide maximum flexibility in the Core Vocabulary, whilst remaining interoperable with INSPIRE Address Guidelines (which EU Member States are obliged to use), the Core Location Vocabulary provides the extra property of full address and makes use of INSPIRE's addressID. |
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administrative unit level 1 | Text | 0..* | The name of the uppermost level of the address, almost always a country. | Best practice is to use the ISO 3166-1 code but if this is inappropriate for the context, country names should be provided in a consistent manner to reduce ambiguity. For example, either write 'France' or 'FRA' consistently throughout the dataset and avoid mixing the two. The Country controlled vocabulary from the Publications Office can be reused for this. | ||
administrative unit level 2 | Text | 0..* | The name of a secondary level/region of the address, usually a county, state or other such area that typically encompasses several localities. | Values could be a region or province, more granular than level 1. | ||
full address | Text | 0..* | The complete address written as a string. | Use of this property is recommended as it will not suffer any misunderstandings that might arise through the breaking up of an address into its component parts. This property is analogous to vCard's label property but with two important differences: (1) formatting is not assumed so that, unlike vCard label, it may not be suitable to print this on an address label, (2) vCard's label property has a domain of vCard Address; the fullAddress property has no such restriction. An example of a full address is "Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France". | ||
locator designator | Literal | 0..* | A number or sequence of characters that uniquely identifies the locator within the relevant scope. | In simpler terms, this is the building number, apartment number, etc. For an address such as "Flat 3, 17 Bridge Street", the locator is "flat 3, 17". | ||
locator name | Text | 0..* | Proper noun(s) applied to the real world entity identified by the locator. The locator name could be the name of the property or complex, of the building or part of the building, or it could be the name of a room inside a building. |
The locator name could be the name of the property or complex, of the building or part of the building, or it could be the name of a room inside a building.
The key difference between a locator designator and a locator name is that the latter is a proper name and is unlikely to include digits. For example, "Shumann, Berlaymont" is a meeting room within the European Commission headquarters for which locator name is more appropriate than locator. |
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post code | Literal | 0..* | The code created and maintained for postal purposes to identify a subdivision of addresses and postal delivery points. | Post codes are common elements in many countries' postal address systems. One of the many post codes of Paris is for example "75000". | ||
post name | Text | 0..* | A name created and maintained for postal purposes to identify a subdivision of addresses and postal delivery points. | Usually a city, for example "Paris". | ||
post office box | Literal | 0..* | A location designator for a postal delivery point at a post office, usually a number. | INSPIRE's name for this is "postalDeliveryIdentifier" for which it uses the locator designator property with a type attribute of that name. This vocabulary separates out the Post Office Box for greater independence of technology. An example post office box number is "9383". | ||
thoroughfare | Text | 0..* | The name of a passage or way through from one location to another. | A thoroughfare is usually a street, but it might be a waterway or some other feature. For example, "Avenue des Champs-Élysées". |
Property | Range | Card | Definition | Usage | ||
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availability restriction | Temporal Entity | 0..* | The time during which the Contact Point is not available. | |||
contact page | Document | 0..* | A web page that could be used to reach out the Contact Point. | |||
has email | Literal | 0..* | An electronic address through which the Contact Point can be contacted. | |||
has telephone | Literal | 0..* | A telephone number through which the Contact Point can be contacted. | |||
opening hours | Temporal Entity | 0..* | The time at which the Contact Point is normally available. |
Property | Range | Card | Definition | Usage | ||
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description | Text | 0..* | A textual explanation of the Participation. | |||
has participant | Agent | 0..* | The Agent involved in the Participation. | |||
has time | Temporal Entity | 0..* | The association of a temporal entity (instant or interval) to any thing. | |||
identifier | Literal | 0..* | The unambiguous structured reference for the Participation. | |||
role | Code | 0..* | The function of an Agent within a Participation. |
Property | Range | Card | Definition | Usage | ||
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accessibility | Text | 0..* | Information about how the Public Event can be approached, reached or entered, in particular for people with special needs. | This property may be provided in multiple languages with multiple instances of the accessibility property. | ||
address | Address | 0..* | Associates any Resource with the corresponding Address. | Asserting the address relationship implies that the Resource has an Address. | ||
audience | Code | 0..* | The target group of people for whom the Public Event is created. | |||
contact point | Contact Point | 0..* | The main contact information of the resource. | Usually a phone number and e-mail address. Other contact methods may be included, including online contact information, but this is conceptually distinct from the organization's homepage that may or may not provide contact information. | ||
description | Text | 0..* | A textual explanation of the Pulblic Event. | Descriptions may be provided in multiple languages with multiple instances of the description property. | ||
event number | Text | 0..* | The sequence position of the Public Event. | Examples could be the ''4th" or "2022". | ||
event status | Code | 0..* | This property defines the overall status of the event. | The recomended code list is the Event Status Controlled vocabulary maintained by the Publications Office of the EU. | ||
event type | Code | 0..* | The nature or genre of the Public Event. | Examples include conferences and summits, meetings, exhibitions, and public debates. The eventType property links the event to a SKOS Concept that provides a classification. An existing classification from Publications Office could be used, see Public Event Type. | ||
expected number of participants | Integer | 0..* | The number of participants expected to participate in the event. | |||
format | Code | 0..* | A plan of organisation or arrangement of the Public Event. | Examples include conference call, physical meeting or hybrid. | ||
has next event | Public Event | 0..* | The Public Event that comes after this one. | |||
has participation | Participation | 0..* | The way how a resource is organized. | |||
has previous event | Public Event | 0..* | The Public Event that comes before this one. | |||
has time | Temporal Entity | 0..* | The association of a temporal entity (instant or interval) to any thing. | This property can be used to specify date or time of a Public Event via the Temporal Entity class, see the date time example from the Time ontology. | ||
homepage | Document | 0..* | The website of the Public Event. | The value of this property is a URL. | ||
identifier | Literal | 0..* | The unambiguous structured reference for the Public Event. | |||
language | Linguistic System | 0..* | The language in which the Public Event is given. | The recommended controlled vocabularies for this property is the Language Authority Table of the Publications Office. | ||
parent event | Public Event | 0..* | A relation to another Public Event that encompasses it. | |||
registration page | Document | 0..* | A web page that provides means to attend the Public Event. | |||
sub event | Public Event | 0..* | A relation towards another Public Event that belong to it. | |||
title | Text | 0..* | The name given to the Public Event. | Titles may be provided in multiple languages with multiple instances of the title property. | ||
topic | Code | 0..* | The subject of the Public Event. | Examples include culture, sport or tourism. |
Property | Range | Card | Definition | Usage | ||
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address | Address | 0..* | Associates any Resource with the corresponding Address. | |||
name | Text | 0..* | The noun given to the Agent. | |||
participates | Participation | 0..* | The participation in which an Agent is involved. | |||
type | Code | 0..* | A classification assigned to an Agent. |
Property | Range | Card | Definition | Usage | ||
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description | Text | 0..* | A textual representation of the Temporal Entity. | |||
frequency | Code | 0..* | The recurrence of an instant or period. | It is recommended to use the frequency from an existing vocabulary like the Frequency from the Publications Office. |
Class | Class IRI | Property Type | Property | Property IRI |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
address area | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#addressArea |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
address ID | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#addressId |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
administrative unit level 1 | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#adminUnitL1 |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
administrative unit level 2 | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#adminUnitL2 |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
full address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#fullAddress |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
locator designator | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#locatorDesignator |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
locator name | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#locatorName |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
post code | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#postCode |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
post name | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#postName |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
post office box | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#poBox |
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Address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#Address |
thoroughfare | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#thoroughfare |
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Agent | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent |
address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#address |
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Agent | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent |
name | http://purl.org/dc/terms/title |
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Agent | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent |
participates | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/participates |
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Agent | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent |
type | http://purl.org/dc/terms/type |
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Contact Point | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint |
availability restriction | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/specialOpeningHoursSpecification |
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Contact Point | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint |
contact page | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/contactPage |
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Contact Point | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint |
has email | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/email |
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Contact Point | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint |
has telephone | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/telephone |
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Contact Point | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/ContactPoint |
opening hours | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/openingHours |
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Document | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Document |
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Linguistic System | http://purl.org/dc/terms/LinguisticSystem |
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Participation | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Participation |
description | http://purl.org/dc/terms/description |
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Participation | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Participation |
has participant | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/hasParticipant |
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Participation | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Participation |
has time | http://www.w3.org/2006/time#hasTime |
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Participation | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Participation |
identifier | http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier |
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Participation | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/Participation |
role | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/role |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
accessibility | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/accessibility |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
address | http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#address |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
audience | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/audience |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
contact point | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/contactPoint |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
description | http://purl.org/dc/terms/description |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
event number | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/eventNumber |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
event status | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/eventStatus |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
event type | http://purl.org/dc/terms/type |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
expected number of participants | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/expectedNumberOfParticipants |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
format | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/format |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
has next event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/hasNextEvent |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
has participation | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/hasParticipation |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
has previous event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/hasPreviousEvent |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
has time | http://www.w3.org/2006/time#hasTime |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
homepage | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
identifier | http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
language | http://purl.org/dc/terms/language |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
parent event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/parentEvent |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
registration page | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/registrationPage |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
sub event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/subEvent |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
title | http://purl.org/dc/terms/title |
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Public Event | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/PublicEvent |
topic | http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject |
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Temporal Entity | http://www.w3.org/2006/time#TemporalEntity |
description | http://purl.org/dc/terms/description |
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Temporal Entity | http://www.w3.org/2006/time#TemporalEntity |
frequency | http://data.europa.eu/m8g/frequency |