CPV 2008 Linked Open Data

This site provides Linked Open Data for CPV Codes (European Union Common Procurement Vocabulary). All the data on this site is derived from the XML files on the Simap site.

These codes provide a rich vocabulary for describing goods and services, from "Cabbages" to "Installation services of parking meter equipment". This service has the goal of making it easy to use the Common Procurement Vocabulary in Linked Open data.

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Data

	CPV2008 - RDF Turtle - 13Mb (does not include supplementary codes)
	CPV2008 - Tab-Separated Values - 0.3Mb (load in any spreadsheet software)
	All CPV2008 Data - RDF Turtle - 14Mb (includes supplementary code schemes)

RDF

The schemes are described using skos. Individual URIs for codes and schemes resolve to shorter documents (as described below) and a big dump of everything is also available.

Namespace: http://purl.org/cpv/2008/

Individual Codes

http://purl.org/cpv/2008/code-<code>>

The code can include the checksum or not. eg. http://purl.org/cpv/2008/code-15555000-3 and http://purl.org/cpv/2008/code-15555000 are both valid but the metadata is associated with the non-checksum version, and a owl:sameAs links this to the URI including the checksum. Resolving the URI also gives the label in a number of european languages.

Information on codes is available as HTML and Turtle formats. The URI will redirect to the RDF Turtle file.

Schemes

http://purl.org/cpv/2008/scheme-<scheme>>

The main scheme is CPV2008 but there are also a number of supplemental schemes which allow qualification of the codes in the main scheme. Some of these supplemental codes are intended for use with a value, such as size or weight, but that is beyond our scope currently.

Schemes are available as HTML, Turtle and TSV (Spreadsheet) formats. The URI will redirect to the RDF Turtle file.

Examples

Example URIs

The URIs are deliberately not defined as part of data.ac.uk as they are a European standard, not just a UK one.

http://purl.org/cpv/2008/code-15555000: - URI for "Ice cream and similar products"
http://purl.org/cpv/2008/code-35511100-0: - URI with checksum for "Aircraft carriers"
http://purl.org/cpv/2008/scheme-CPV2008: - URI for the main CPV2008 scheme
http://purl.org/cpv/2008/scheme-PB: - URI for the supplementary vocabulary "Section P: renting services, Group B: crew, driver or operator services".

Example URLs

http://cpv.data.ac.uk/turtle/code-15555000.ttl: - URL of Turtle RDF document describing concept "Ice cream and similar products". This won't display in a normal web-browser, so to view it use an RDF browser, eg. Graphite Browser.
http://cpv.data.ac.uk/code-15555000.html: - HTML page describing concept "Ice cream and similar products".
http://purl.org/cpv/2008/code-HA23: - URI for the supplemental code "In tomato sauce"
http://purl.org/cpv/2008/code-HA23-4: - URI with checksum for supplemental code "In tomato sauce"
http://cpv.data.ac.uk/turtle/code-HA23.ttl: - URL of Turtle RDF document describing the supplemental concept "In tomato sauce". This won't display in a normal web-browser, so to view it use an RDF browser, eg. Graphite Browser.
http://cpv.data.ac.uk/code-HA23.html: - HTML page describing concept "In tomato sauce".
http://cpv.data.ac.uk/turtle/scheme-PB.ttl: - URL of Turtle RDF document describing the supplementary scheme "Section P: renting services, Group B: crew, driver or operator services".
http://cpv.data.ac.uk/tsv/scheme-PB.tsv: - URL of Tab-Separated Values document describing the supplementary scheme "Section P: renting services, Group B: crew, driver or operator services". TSV files will load in Excel, Google Docs and other spreadsheets.
http://cpv.data.ac.uk/scheme-PB.html: - HTML page describing the supplementary scheme "Section P: renting services, Group B: crew, driver or operator services".

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