CAV represents and defines what an “Assessment” of “assets” is and how to perform the assessment based on “Criteria”. It is a domain-agnostic vocabulary, meaning that it can be used to assess any type of assets. It is an EC solution.

Owner

European Commission

Supra-national authority

Contact information

CAMSS Team

What is the Core Assessment Vocabulary?

The Core Assessment Vocabulary (CAV) represents and defines what an “Assessment” of “assets” is and how to perform the assessment based on “Criteria”. It is a domain-agnostic vocabulary, meaning that it can be used to assess any type of assets.

Description

CAMSS stands for Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications. It is a development of the DEP Programme Action “Achieving a modern ICT standardisation policy” aiming at “assessing and selecting standards and specifications for an eGovernment project, a reference when building an architecture and an enabler for justifying the choice of standards and specifications in terms of interoperability needs and requirements. It is fully aligned with the European Standardisation Regulation 1025/2012”.

The Core Assessment Vocabulary is a domain-agnostic vocabulary, meaning that it can be used to assess any type of asset. Hence, the CAV is at the very core of the CAMSS ecosystem.

The current version of the Core Standards and Specification Vocabulary is 1.2.0. It can be downloaded here together with its previous versions.

Benefits

The Core Assessment Vocabulary includes and defines the principal elements involved in the assessment of an asset, independently of what the asset is. By reusing other vocabularies and defining a reusable and extensible data model, it can facilitate the exchange of information between agents.

It allows to structure the data and enable the interoperability of assessments on “anything” that can be required via criteria and evidence.