The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) provides, among others, a solution to uniquely identify and access national and
European
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In general
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** European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe ...
legislation online. This will guarantee easier access, exchange and reuse of legislation for public authorities, professional users, academics and citizens. ELI paves the way for a
semantic web of legal gazettes and official journals.
Elements of ELI
ELI uses
URI Templates (RFC 6570)
that carry semantics both from a legal and an end-user point of view.
Each Member State will build its own, self-describing
URI Uri may refer to:
Places
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* Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, a town in India
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s using the described components as well as taking into account their specific language requirements.
All the components are optional and can be selected based on national requirements and do not have a pre-defined order.
To enable the exchange of information the chosen URI template must be documented using the URI template mechanism.
Example:
:
/eli////////////
Metadata
In addition to
HTTP
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, ...
URIs uniquely identifying legislation ELI encourages the use of relevant metadata elements to further describe it. Annex, section 2 fully specifies the corresponding recommended and optional elements and their underlying
ontology
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Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exis ...
.
RDFa
ELI invites participating Member States to embed these
metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
* Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
elements into the webpages of their
legal information systems using
RDFa.
See also
*
CELEX
*
European Case Law Identifier
The European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) is an identifier for court decisions in Europe. The identifier consists of five elements separated by colons: ECLI:'' ountry code':'' ourt identifier':''ear of decision':'' pecific identifier'. The standard ...
(ECLI)
*
Lex (URN)
is a ''URN namespace'', a type of Uniform Resource Name (URN), that allows accurate identification of laws and other legal norms.
LexML Brazil and Italy (Civil law countries) already officially recognize the ''URN LEX standard draft v0.9'', as ...
References
External links
The European e-Justice PortalELI Luxembourg on
EUR-Lex
Eur-Lex (stylized EUR-Lex) is an official website of European Union law and other public documents of the European Union (EU), published in 24 official languages of the EU. The Official Journal (OJ) of the European Union is also published on EUR- ...
ELI Metadata Registry
European Legislation Identifier "ELI" - un grand pas en avant pour la mise en place d’un web sémantique de l’information juridique
European Union law
Identifiers
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