The Core Public Event Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a public event, e.g. the title, the date, the location, the organiser etc.

Owner

ISA² Programme of the European Commission

Supra-national authority

Contact information

SEMIC team

What is the Core Public Event Vocabulary?

Description

The SEMIC Core Vocabularies are the starting point for developing interoperable e-Government systems as it allows mappings with existing data models. The guarantees Public Administrations to attain cross-border and cross-sector interoperability.

The Core Public Event Vocabulary is one of the Core Vocabularies that have been developed by the SEMIC action of the former ISA² Programme, which is now named Interoperable Europe. The specification is developed in an open process with the active involvement of the SEMIC action stakeholders including: The e-Government Core Vocabularies Working Group (with a total of 69 people from 22 countries, 19 EU and 3 non-EU countries (USA, South-Africa, and Norway), and several EU Institutions and the Directorate-General for Digital Services: DG DIGIT.

The current version of the Core Public Event Vocabulary is 1.0.0. The latest editor draft of the Core Public Event Vocabulary is 1.1.0. Both can be downloaded on GitHub.

Benefits

The Core Public Event Vocabulary aspires to become a common data model for describing public events (conferences, summits, etc.) in the European Union. This specification enables interoperability among registers and any other ICT based solutions exchanging and processing information related to public events.

Version information

On the first of February 2024, the editors draft of version 1.1.0 was released for public review.
On 15 May 2023, version 1.0.0 of CPEV was released.
In 2022, an effort was pursued towards an official release of CPEV.
In 2018, a first public draft of CPEV, intended to be piloted, was released.

Development and maintenance process

The applicable policy regarding the development and maintenance process of the Core Public Event Vocabulary is available here.

Reuse of the Core Criterion and Core Public Event Vocabulary

The list below includes countries and organisations that reuse or promote the use of the Core Public Event Vocabulary.

Fi-Core & Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland in the Data Vocabularies Tool.
The Electronic Administration Portal (PAE) of Spain.
The International Hellenic University of Greece for research purposes.
DIGST of Denmark in their common digital public architecture.
The Center of Semantic Intergration of Russia.
The Social Insurance Institute (ZUS) of Poland for research purposes.
The National Interoperability Framework of Slovenia.
The Dutch Governmental Reference Architecture.
The Once-Only Principle Project (TOOP) as part of their backend.
The Agency for Digital Italy (AGID) and their Public Events Ontology.

Get involved!

Do you want to participate in the work of our Core Vocabularies Working Group? Share your comments and change requests via the GitHub Core Public Event Vocabulary repository.