The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV) is an 'encoding scheme' for populating the e-GMS Subject element. It is fully compliant with ISO 2788 and BS 8723 the International and British Standards for monolingual thesauri. The vocabulary was developed with the backing of the ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) and the eGU (Cabinet Office e-Government Unit). Version 1.00 was released in April 2005; Version 2.00 supersedes it, as of 3 April 2006.
The scope of IPSV Version 1.00 was limited to citizen-facing topics, such as community information and the services provided by public sector bodies. In Version 2.00 the scope is expanded to cover 'internal-facing' subjects, such as human resource management, finance and internal communications.
Five local authorities led and financed the expansion project:
- Leicestershire County Council
- London Borough of Islington
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Surrey County Council
- West Sussex County Council
Here you can see the outcome of the project. The Internal Vocabulary is a subset of the full IPSV selected to help organisations manage their internal information resources. You can see the hierarchical tree structure online through the Interactive Viewer, or download it in any of the formats listed below - just follow the links.
The Internal Vocabulary has a total of 756 preferred terms and 1333 non-preferred terms.
Please use the IPSV Internal Vocabulary Discussion Forum (see link below) to provide feedback and see what others say. Suggestions for amendments needed in the next update should be submitted by 15 September 2006.
IPSV Internal Vocabulary subset, released on 3 April 2006:
The following alternative formats are available:
Click here for a diagrammatic representation of the XML resources making up IPSV internal vocabulary. Associated schemas and XSLT resources are also given, with hyperlinks to each.
To view the Internal Vocabulary as an interactive tree, Click here.
Please post questions and comments on the IPSV Internal Vocabulary forum at http://www.esd.org.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=146. Your normal Local e-Government Standards Body and esd-toolkit login applies. You can register and login from http://www.esd.org.uk/integratedforums/ (You do not need to be a local government officer to use this forum).
Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV) © Crown copyright.
We wish to encourage the re-use of the IPSV. It may be downloaded by individuals and organisations for incorporation in products and services that are made available to others without requiring a licence or payment of fees.
Anyone who includes the IPSV in a product or service should ensure that they do not alter the data or its presentation in any way that damages the integrity of the IPSV. We shall not be liable for any losses due to errors or omissions in the IPSV. IPSV data should not be used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. If part or all of IPSV is reproduced elsewhere, its Crown copyright status should be mentioned, the title 'Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary' should be shown and the source of the material should be acknowledged, preferably by providing a link to the IPSV home page on the esd-toolkit website.