We would like to inform you of changes to the structure of the
Corporate Body authority table, which has now been modified in June
publication to make it easier to handle changes in labels and
information linked to a specific body (identified by the same URI).
The URI of the current concept remains identical. Old labels are now
attached to a ‘historical’ concept, which is itself linked to the
current concept via the dct:replaces/dct:isReplacedBy properties.
This ‘historical’ concept has a start date and an end date,
corresponding to the validity dates of the labels, and are, by
default, deprecated.
The structure of the URI of historical concepts is based on that
of the current concept, followed by the year of the start of
validity and a number, as shown in the following examples:
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body/COM
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body/COM_1967_0
These changes will be available online from the 24th of June
2025, and will be visible on the EU Vocabularies site from this time.