Le projet ELI, consiste à créer un identificateur européen et des métadonnées standardisés pour la législation des Etats membres par le biais du web sémantique et de rendre disponible ces données dans le Linked Open Data via l’annotation sémantique des pages des Journaux Officiels. ELI est entré dans la phase de réalisation technique pour différents Journaux Officiels, notamment la France (DILA), l’Union Européenne, le Royaume Uni, le Luxembourg. Cette infrastructure de connaissance sur les ressources législatives des différents états de l’Union Européenne ouvre de nombreuses perspectives de réutilisation et de création de services innovants. Par Jean Delahousse

1. European Legislation Identifier
“ELI”
European Legal e-Access conference
Paris 22 November 2012
John Dann

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What is ELI
• “European Legislation Identifier” -
(Identifiant européen de la législation)
• Maillon indispensable au web sémantique
• Définition:
Référencement des textes législatifs
nationaux dans le JO par l’utilisation
d’identifiants uniques, de metadonnées
structurées et d’ontologies

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Eli Project
Initiated - Working Group “Access to Legislation”
“European Forum of Official Gazettes”
• Focus on :
 Legislation:
• Easy access (user-friendly)
• Easy referencing
 Interconnected Official Gazettes
• Automatic exchange of Information
• Information sharing (e.g. Directive implementation)
 Human + Machine readable
• allow sophisticated queries
• cross-domain queries

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Eli Project
• Work initiated in the Working Group -
“European Forum of Official Gazettes”
• Presentation to Council UE – December
2011
–Council EU Task Force 2012 (London + Paris)
– Presentation conclusions - Council UE – June 2011
• Conclusion by the Council EU - 23 September 2012
Link to EurLex

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ELi components

6. • Unique Resource Identifier - URI1
• Metadata catalogues2
• Structured information linking to
other documents – e.g. RDFa3
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ELI components

7.  Flexible solution to meet national,
regional structures
 Stable and reliable
 Easy referring to Legislation
 Compatible with existing solutions,
e.g. URN:LEX
ELI

8. /eli/ {country}/ {agent}/ {sub-agent}/ {year}/ {month}/ {day }/ {type}/{Natural
identifier}/ {Level 1…}/ {Point in Time}/ {Version}/ {language}
URI

9. Possible future:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/eu/2006/dir/123
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/eu/2006/dir/123/consolidated
Benefits

10. Metadata

11. • ELI-URI Draft implementation in
Luxembourg
• ELI–URI: France
• Use case – United Kingdom
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ELI components

12. http://.....lu/eli/lu/etat/leg/2012
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Draft URI - Luxembourg

13. http://....lu/eli/lu/etat/leg/2012/03/23/L/0702a/
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Draft URI - Luxembourg

14. • Live demonstration – Draft ELI-URI
implementation in Luxembourg
• Legimobile URI - France
• Use case – United Kingdom
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ELI components

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ELI components - France
URI Legifrance:
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichText
e.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000025582
411
Diapositive fourni par Pierre Larrède - DILA

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ELI components - France
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidText
e=JORFTEXT000025582411
URI Legimobile:
http://legimobile.fr/fr/lr/texte/loi/2012/20
12-410/20120329/
Diapositive fourni par Pierre Larrède - DILA

17. • Draft ELI-URI implementation in
Luxembourg
• Legimobile URI - France
• Use case - United Kingdom
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ELI components

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Slides provided by John Sheridan – The National Archives

19. ELI in the UK
• If you visit legislation.gov.uk you will see great care has with
naming things
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Returns an html document for United Kingdom Public General Act (ukpga),
2005, Chapter 14, Section 1
Returns an html document with a list from all legislation types where the
title contains “wildlife”
Slides provided by John Sheridan – The National Archives

20. Some of the ELIs are quite sophisticated…
• UK Public General Act (ukpga)
• 1981
• Chapter 69
• Section 5
• As it extends to England only
• As it stood, in force on 30th January 2001
• Displayed as an HTML document with the timeline on
• Although URIs are opaque having this type of design
changes how people use the service
20Slides provided by John Sheridan – The National Archives

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Slides provided by John Sheridan – The National Archives

22. Part of the Linked Open Data web
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legislation.gov.uk
Slides provided by John Sheridan – The National Archives

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Part of the Linked Open Data web
Slides provided by John Sheridan – The National Archives

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26. “Semantic OJs”
Time
SemanticWeb
Familiarise
Share experience
+
Common
standardised set of
components
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Steps
Implement in
small steps

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Merci
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