Dutch & French

Belgian nomenclature is published in Dutch and French. Both are official; neither is a translation of the other.

Bilingual field

"description": {
  "nl": "Raadpleging in de spreekkamer door een geaccrediteerde huisarts",
  "fr": "Consultation au cabinet par un médecin généraliste accrédité"
}

What we do not do

We do not translate. Both texts are as published.
We do not fill a missing language from the other.
We do not normalise capitalisation, punctuation or abbreviations.
We do not pick a language for you. Both are returned; your application chooses.

Searching

Search covers both languages by default. Pass language=nl or language=fr to restrict it. Each language is indexed with its own stemming rules, so a Dutch query is not stemmed as if it were French.

Accents are optional on input: kinesitherapie and kinésithérapie both find the relevant records, in either language's corpus.

Examples

GET /v1/search?q=raadpleging&language=nl
GET /v1/search?q=consultation&language=fr
GET /v1/search?q=kinesitherapie

Short descriptions

Where the source publishes an abbreviated form, it is returned separately as short_description. These are terse and written for screens with 20 characters to spare; prefer the full description unless you have the same constraint.