Transcript European Legislation Identifier (ELI)

European Legislation Identifier
(ELI)
Catherine Tabone
04 June 2014
European Legislation Identifier (ELI)
• ELI is a European Council Recommendation initiated by members of the
working party on e-law.
• ELI is an optional standard that the official online legislation publishers of EU
countries are encouraged to implement.
• Its aim is to make it easier for legal information, relating to legislation, to be
exchanged between the different legal systems of EU member states.
• The formal Council conclusions notice inviting the introduction of ELI can be
accessed on the eur-lex website:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2012:325:0003:0011:EN:PDF
Elements Of ELI
ELI is made up of two parts:
1. URI scheme to identify legislation
2. Metadata to describe each item of legislation
ELI URI Scheme
There is considerable variation between the different legal systems used in
different European countries and consequently in the values required to uniquely
identify an item of legislation.
In response to this the ELI URI scheme consists of a set of building blocks.
Legislation publishers can use as many (or as few) of these as they need, in any
order, to create a URI template that works for their particular national legislation
requirements.
The only mandatory feature is for it to begin with /eli/.
/eli/{jurisdiction}/{agent}/{sub-agent}/{year}/{month}/{day}/{type}/
{natural identifier}/{level 1…}/{point in time}/{version}/{language}
ELI URI Scheme Template Components
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ELI URI Planned Implementation Examples
• UK Implementation:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eli/ukpga/2010/1
/eli/{type}/{year}/{natural identifier}
• France Implementation:
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/original/loi/EFIX1234869L/2012/12/29/global
/eli/{point in time}/{type}/{natural identifier}/{year}/
{month}/{day}/{version}
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ELI Metadata
• The ELI recommendation proposes a set of common metadata to be
added to legislation.
• The intention is that this should be embedded in legislation website
content using RDFa.
• Legislation publishers can choose to express some or all of these
values depending on the data they have available and which are
relevant for their jurisdiction.
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ELI Metadata & Citations
The metadata properties include values to relate the legislation
being viewed with other legislation using various different
relationships including:
• Legislation x transposes legislation y
• Legislation x is changed by legislation y
• Legislation x consolidates legislation y
• Legislation x cites legislation y
e.g. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eli/ukpga/2010/1 eli:cites
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eli/ukpga/1984/39
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ELI Lessons Learnt
• Every Country’s legislation is different
• Test all proposals with a variety of real data
• Provide guidance
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