Registered Organization Vocabulary

The Core Business Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a legal entity, e.g. the legal name, the activity, address, ...

All the versions of the Core Vocabularies can be downloaded from https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_vocabularies/asset_release/all.

Since 8 January 2013, an RDF syntax of the Core Business Vocabulary has been formally published on the W3C standards track. It has been revised and renamed into Registered Organization Vocabulary (RegOrg). >> Read more

Motivation

E-Government Core Vocabularies are the starting point for developing interoperable e-Government systems as it allows mappings with existing data models. This guarantees Public Administrations to attain cross-border and cross-sector interoperability. Please refer to the eGovernment Core Vocabularies paper on the approach and benefits of Core Concepts for further background.

Core Vocabularies Working Group

The Core Business Vocabulary is one of the three Core Vocabularies that have been developed in the context of Action 1.1 of the ISA Programme. The specification is developed by a multi disciplinary Working Group, with a total of 69 people from 22 countries, 18 EU and 4 non-EU countries (USA, South-Africa, Norway and Croatia), and several EU Institutions.

Milestones

From November 2011 till February 2012 version 0.2 was developed.
On 17 February 2012 version 0.2 entered a month-long public review period, ending on 16 March 2012.
In March 2012 all comments of the public review period were discussed in a Working Group meeting.
On 7 May 2012 version 1.00 of the combined specification of Core Business, Core Location and Core Person Vocabulary was released.
On 23 May 2012, the Coordination Group of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme has endorsed version 1.00 of the combined specification of Core Business, Core Location and Core Person Vocabulary.

Known implementations

Using Core Business Vocabulary in the EU Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS)

Owner: European Commission

Date: May 2015

Core Business Vocabulary-compliant RDF description of a company on OpenCorporates
Owner: OpenCorporates
Date: June 2012

Greek Tax Authorities business registry published as linked open data using core business and core location
Owner: International Hellenic University
Date: June 2012