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Federal Vocabularies
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The working group

A functional working group composed of BOSA, eHealth, CBSS, FPS Finance, RSZ/ONSS and Smals worked together to standardize the most common business ontologies (Person, Organization, Location, Temporal, Generic, etc).

The end result is a published vocabulary list of classes and properties, with their URI's, accepted by the Federal government as standard vocabulary.

These vocabularies come from 3 sources: Federal Government services, Flanders and EU standards.

Each vocabulary element has a numeric identifier (no meaning attached), a name (camelcase, English) and a definition.

The deliverable "FedVoc"

When to use ?

The Federal Vocabularies (FedVoc) describe semantics in domains commonly used by Belgian government institutions. You can use them

If you can't find a concept that's commonly used by Belgian government institutions, you may open an issue to request the concept to be added.

How to use ?

How to read the FedVoc Excel file:

In the "Standard" sheet, you find the vocabulary entries accepted by the Federal government as standard vocabulary.

In the "Draft" sheet, you find the vocabulary entries that are still a work in progress.

The "Government institutions" sheet provides the common names for Belgian Government institutions (code = abbreviation, name = full name, status = Draft/Standard)

More advanced, the "Datamodels" sheet shows the relationships between vocabulary entries. It can be read as:

<SubjectName> has a relation of type <predicate> with <ObjectName>

For instance: