Glossary

Recurring terms in machine-readable law. Posts link here via schema.org about.

Akoma Ntoso

An OASIS XML standard (LegalDocML) for representing legislative, judicial and parliamentary documents and their structure.

European Legislation Identifier (ELI)

A framework of stable, machine-readable URIs plus an RDF ontology for identifying and describing legislation.

FRBR

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records — the Work / Expression / Manifestation / Item model used to identify legal texts across versions, languages and formats.

FRBR URI

A hierarchical URI (work → expression → manifestation) that names a legal text at a chosen level of abstraction.

eId

The stable element-identifier attribute in Akoma Ntoso used to address a specific portion (article, paragraph, litera …) of a document.

LegalDocML

The OASIS technical committee and specification family that standardises Akoma Ntoso for legal documents.