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Irish Legislative Identifiers & URIs for Acts & Statutory Instruments, Study notes of European Union law

Examples of Irish legislative identifiers and Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs) for Acts and Statutory Instruments using the eISB URI standard. It includes various formats such as acts, sections, schedules, and constitutional provisions, as well as examples of URIs for related documents and transposes directives.

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19/July/2019
European Legislation Identifier (ELI) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
Standard for the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB).
What is it?
The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) is a semantic
web solution
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that enables direct access to specific
national legislation through a structured, flexible
identifier. It creates a common system to identify
legislation and its metadata. ELI sets out unique
identifiers, metadata and a recommended ontology that, when applied to online
legislation, produces a structured reference to legislation that is recognisable, readable and
understandable by humans and computers, allowing greater and faster exchanges of data
and information.
This document sets out the implementation of the three phases (pillars) of the ELI standard
on the eISB.
For more detailed information on the ELI standard please see the ELI register page on the
EUR-Lex web site Link to the ELI register page here.
How will it affect the access to the electronic Irish Statute Book?
Access to the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) will not change. Where information is
linked to the eISB using the old addressing system a redirection process will automatically
provide access to the legislation at the new address. Following the implementation of the
ELI URI standard, all new linked references to legislation on the eISB will use the new
standard.
The three pillars of the European Legislation Identifier
The specifications of ELI have three components, referred to as the three pillars:
Pillar I: identification of legislation: HTTP URI templates at the European, national and
regional levels based on a defined set of components.
Pillar II: metadata properties describing legal resources: Definition of a set of metadata
and its expression in a formal ontology.
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The Semantic Web (also named Web 3.0) is a network of data that enables machines to un derstand the
semantics (i.e. meaning) of information published on the Web. It extends the netw ork of human-readable
Web pages (e.g. published in HTML) by inserting machine-readable meta data about that published
information and how it relates to the content in other pages, thereby enabling automa ted agents to access
the Web more intelligently and perform tasks on behalf of users.
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19/July/

European Legislation Identifier (ELI) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

Standard for the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB).

What is it?

The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) is a semantic

web solution^1 that enables direct access to specific

national legislation through a structured, flexible

identifier. It creates a common system to identify

legislation and its metadata. ELI sets out unique

identifiers, metadata and a recommended ontology that, when applied to online

legislation, produces a structured reference to legislation that is recognisable, readable and

understandable by humans and computers, allowing greater and faster exchanges of data

and information.

This document sets out the implementation of the three phases (pillars) of the ELI standard

on the eISB.

For more detailed information on the ELI standard please see the ELI register page on the

EUR-Lex web site – Link to the ELI register page here.

How will it affect the access to the electronic Irish Statute Book?

Access to the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) will not change. Where information is

linked to the eISB using the old addressing system a redirection process will automatically

provide access to the legislation at the new address. Following the implementation of the

ELI URI standard, all new linked references to legislation on the eISB will use the new

standard.

The three pillars of the European Legislation Identifier

The specifications of ELI have three components, referred to as the three pillars:

Pillar I: identification of legislation : HTTP URI templates at the European, national and

regional levels based on a defined set of components.

Pillar II: metadata properties describing legal resources : Definition of a set of metadata

and its expression in a formal ontology.

(^1) The Semantic Web (also named Web 3.0) is a network of data that enables machines to understand the

semantics (i.e. meaning) of information published on the Web. It extends the network of human-readable Web pages (e.g. published in HTML) by inserting machine-readable metadata about that published information and how it relates to the content in other pages, thereby enabling automated agents to access the Web more intelligently and perform tasks on behalf of users.

Pillar III: rendering the ELI metadata machine-reusable : Integration of metadata into the

legislative websites.

When will the first phase of the ELI go live on the eISB?

The first phase of the ELI implementation i.e. the standard for the Uniform Resource

Identifiers (URI) went live in September 2015.

What about the second and third pillars?

The second pillar has been completed by identifying the relevant ELI metadata properties

that apply for the eISB and these values are now documented in the

eISB metadata ontology on pages 11 and 12.

The third pillar consisting of the serialisation of metadata (i.e. marked up appropriately in

RDFa and embedded in the HTML pages) has been completed for Acts and Statutory

Instruments from 2013 and will be updated for new legislation going forward. An example

of this mark-up is available on page 13.

The RDFa metadata can be viewed through a browser extension. One example is The

OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) which is a browser extension for Google Chrome,

Mozilla Firefox, and Opera (with builds planned for Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge) that

unveils metadata oriented structured data embedded within HTML documents.

Reading material for further information on implementing ELI

The ELI steering committee, through the EU Office of Publications, has published two

manuals that cover implementation of ELI in detail;

1. ELI implementation methodology - Good practices and guidelines

https://publications.europa.eu/s/hPod

2. ELI - A technical implementation guide

http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/eli-pbOA0415859/

ELI Video

The ELI steering committee has also produced an informative video

that is available in 24 languages.

More Information on the ELI URI schema

Information on the structure of the ELI URI schema and how it will be implemented on the

eISB is set out below......

The exact syntax of the URI standard is as follows;

Using the above as a template the following edited syntax is required for the eISB;

These elements would contain the following values;

name format value comments

Year yyyy 2014

Type act

prv

ca

si

sro

cons

Public Act

Private Act

Constitutional Amendment

Statutory Instrument

Statutory Rules, Orders and Regulations

Constitution

(1948 – date)

(1922 – 1947)

Natural ID nnnn 9, 23, 850 Number of Act or SI or Cons. amendment

Level 1 contents section/nnnn schedule schedule/nnnn article/nnnn

contents section/ schedule schedule/ article/

Contents (TOC to Long Title) - Section number and Schedule for Acts only. - Article number for Constitution only

Version enacted

made

revised

Enacted

Made

Revised

Point in Time yyyy-mm-dd 2013 - 02 - 22 For Revised Acts & Constitution

Language en

ga

English

Irish

/eli/ {jurisdiction}/{agent}/{sub-agent}/{year}/{month}/{day}/{type}/{Natural identifier}/{Level

1…}/{Point in Time}/{Version}/{language}

/eli/ {year}/ {type} / {Natural identifier}/ {Level 1…} / {Version} / {Point in Time} / {language}

Examples

Name of Act: MOTOR VEHICLE (DUTIES AND LICENCES) ACT 2012 (10/2012)

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

2012 act 10 enacted en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/act/10/enacted/en

Name of Act: MOTOR VEHICLE (DUTIES AND LICENCES) ACT 2012 (10/2012) Section 4

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

2012 act 10 section/4 enacted en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/act/10/section/4/enacted/en

Name of Act: MOTOR VEHICLE (DUTIES AND LICENCES) ACT 2012 (10/2012) Schedule

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

2012 act 10 schedule enacted en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/act/10/ schedule /enacted/en

Name of Act: An tACHT UM AN SEACHTÚ LEASÚ IS FICHE AR AN mBUNREACHT 2004

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

2004 ca 27 enacted ga

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2004/ca/27/enacted/ga

Name of Act (pre-1922): 1781 - 82 (21 & 22 Geo. 3) c. 16

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

1781 act 16* enacted en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/ 1781 /act/1 6 /enacted/en

Note: *chapter number used as natural identifier – year taken from short title

Name of SI: S.I. No. 201/2012 — Value-Added Tax (Refund of Tax) (Flat-rate Farmers)

Order 2012

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

2012 si 201 made en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/si/201/made/en

Name of SRO: S.I. No. 4/1932 - The Statistics (Census of Production) (Forms) Order, 1932

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

1932 sro 4 made en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1932/sro/4/made/en

Name of SRO: 24/12/1923: Order Made By The Minister For Finance

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

1923 sro 999 * made en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1923/sro/999/made/en

Note: For SRO’s without a number assigned, a {Natural identifier} of 999...998...997 etc

will be applied for URI identification purposes only. These numbers will not be displayed

in the on-line lists.

Name of SRO:

S.I. No. 1/1923 - Gas Charges: Revocation Of Temp. Increase - Cork - Order Of 1919

S.I. No. 1/1923 - Railway And Canal Commission (Extension Of Time) Order, 1923

Applied eISB Unique Resource Identifier (URI) standard

{year} {type} {Natural

identifier}

{Level

{Version} {language}

sro

sro

1a*

1b*

made

made

en

en

Full URI: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1923/sro/1a/made/en

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1923/sro/1b/made/en

Note: For SRO’s with duplicate numbers assigned, the addition of the suffix

“a”...”b”...”c”... etc to the {Natural identifier} will be applied for URI identification

purposes only. These identifiers will not be displayed in the on-line lists.

Publishing yearly lists of legislation

Using the ELI URI standard a yearly list of legislation is displayed by the following URI

syntax;

/eli/{year}/{type – “act” or “si”}

Examples

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2014/act

(will display the list of Acts (public, private and constitutional amendments) for 2014

including bi-lingual Act titles if applicable

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2014/si/

(will display the list of Statutory Instruments for 2014)

Multiple format versions

A representation URI should reference various document formats for that piece of

legislation

Examples

Acts

HTML version -

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/act/10/enacted/en/html

Full HTML (print) version -

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/act/10/enacted/en/print

PDF version -

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/act/10/enacted/en/pdf

XML version -

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/act/10/enacted/en/xml

Statutory Instruments

HTML (and print) version -

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/si/2/made/en/html (or “print”)

PDF version -

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/si/2/made/en/pdf

eISB metadata ontology (based on ELI ontology version 1.1) Act

Classes Value/Description/Example

Legal Resource eli/2016/act/10/enacted/

Legal ResourceSubdivision eli/2016/act/10/section/4/enacted

Legal Expression eli/2016/act/10/enacted/en

Format eli/2016/act/10/enacted/en/html

Properties

is_part_of Links sub-division of legal resource to legal resource

has_part Links legal resource to sub-division of legal resource

is_realized_by Links the legal resource to an expression

realizes Inverse of above

is_embodied_by Links the legal expression to a format

embodies Inverse of above

Properties [Constant]

uri_schema http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/pdf/ELI_URI_schema.pdf

relevant_for http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/atu/IRL

published_in electronic Irish Statute Book - eISB

published_in_format http://www.irishstatutebook.ie

publisher Houses of the Oireachtas Service

version “enacted” -

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/resources/version#ENACTED *

rightsholder Houses of the Oireachtas

licence http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/open-data.html

legal_value Official – ELI definition;

“- official : published by an organisation with the public task of making

the information available”

http://data.europa.eu/eli/ontology#LegalValue-official *

Properties [Variable]

type_document “act” “prv” “ca” - e.g.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/resources/resource-type#ACT *

format HTML/PDF/XML etc. – e.g.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html

language ENG or GLE –

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/

changes To identify Acts or SIs that are amended by this Act

date_document value for Act "date of signature of President"

related_to URI of related document e.g. Bill, Revised Act, bilingual Act

transposes ELI URI of the “Directive/Implementing Directive/

Regulation/Implementing Regulation/Delegated Regulation

Decision/Implementing Decision” that the Act transposes.

title “short title” for Act

description “long title” for Act

number Number of Act

Pillar III: rendering the ELI metadata machine-reusable - Integration of metadata into the

legislative files (serialisation of metadata in RDFa format).

Example of RDFa mark-up for Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental

Obligations) Act 2016 - http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2016/act/13/enacted/en