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 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 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:
houseNumber
domain
BelgianAddress
means that ‘houseNumber’ is a property of a class ‘BelgianAddress’Marriage
subClassOf
PersonRelation
means that Marriage
is a subclass of class PersonRelation