Linked NACE

Welcome to the EXPERIMENTAL NACE Rev. 2 (Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community) wrapper to Linked Data — the EU economic-activity classification, the economic-activity sibling of the geographic NUTS / LAU wrappers. NACE is defined by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 and published by Eurostat under their copyright policy.

NACE is modelled with SKOS as one concept per code in a single four-level hierarchy (section → division → group → class), all in one concept scheme. Each concept carries en/de/fr skos:prefLabels, a skos:broader link to its parent (sections are skos:topConceptOf the scheme), and a skos:exactMatch to the canonical EU Vocabularies NACE IRI.

The bundled classification is the complete NACE Rev. 2 list — 996 codes (21 sections, 88 divisions, 272 groups, 615 classes). See the README for how to refresh the CSV from the Eurostat SDMX codelist.

Some example concepts

./nace/52.10

Warehousing and storage (class) — broader 52.1 → 52 → H.

./nace/52

Warehousing and support activities for transportation (division).

./nace/H

Transportation and storage (section, a top concept).

The concept scheme

./cl/nace2

The single NACE Rev. 2 concept scheme; its top concepts are the 21 sections.

URI templates

URIs follow these RFC 6570 templates (level 3 label expansion {.format} for the representation suffix):

./nace/{notation}#it

The NACE code itself (the thing, a skos:Concept); e.g. ./nace/52.10#it. notation is the canonical dotted form: a section letter (H), division (52), group (52.1), or class (52.10).

./nace/{notation}{.format}

The document describing the code (e.g. ./nace/52.10.ttl). The document —> thing link is foaf:primaryTopic (httpRange-14).

./cl/nace2#it

The concept scheme itself; ./cl/nace2#it.

./cl/nace2{.format}

The document describing the concept scheme.

format ∈ {ttl, rdf, nt, html} (text/turtle, application/rdf+xml, application/n-triples, text/html). Omit the suffix to let the HTTP Accept header decide (q-values honoured); with no preference the default is HTML.

Source: Eurostat SDMX NACE_R2 codelist. Defining act: Reg. (EC) No 1893/2006. Licence: Eurostat copyright.