- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:40:42 +0100
- To: public-dpvcg@w3.org
- Cc: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
On Monday, December 17, 2018 4:48:08 PM CET Bert Bos wrote: > I remember from the workshop in Vienna earlier this year that referring to > laws by URI was mentioned as a problem. There is apparently no unique way. > > On the other hand, lawyers obviously do reference laws in their texts, via > some combination of the law's (abbreviated) name, a year, an article number > and a clause, whichever are relevant: "Art. 461 Wetb. v. Strafr.", "Code du > travail, art. L.2312-5". So, until there is a standard, a free-form text > string may be the only option. At least in the EU, there is the option of a so called ELI, the European Legislation Identifier. ELI uses URI Templates (RFC 6570) [3] that carry semantics both from a legal and an end-user point of view. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli-register/about.html gives useful links to latest sources of information and EC decisions. There is also the Europena Court case Legal Identifier called ECLI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Case_Law_Identifier As said, with the concept in DPVCG, we integrate well into the overall EC landscape. But I don't know how this works in the US or in Japan. --Rigo
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