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Overview of ELI and ELI-DL Ontologies for Legislation Metadata

Avatar of Jean DelahousseJean Delahousse
路Dec 15, 2020 09:28 AM

Dear Anna, there is an ontology to describe legislation (ELI) and legislative activities (ELI-DL). It鈥檚 the result of an initiative of the official journals of european countries with the support of EU. Those ontologies are core ontologies, the goal is to let official journals to describe with metadata the legislation and legislative works in their web sites. The ontologies are based on FRBR-OO and SKOS, enabling to describe documents and legislative activities. As core ontologies they can be expended to adapt to a specific use cases. I am one of the editor of those ontologies with Thomas Francart. There is also more specific ontologies such as JOLUX used by Luxembourg and Swiss gouvernements which I edit, and CDM used by European Union for their legislation knowledge graphs, both very much inspired by FRBR-OO. Those ontologies are aligned on ELI and ELI-DL. If you are interested I can send you more references and links about those ontologies. What is your project ? Have a good day.

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    daria
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    hi Jean - great response! Would you like posting that on our Q&A board as well? 馃檪

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    Anna G.
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    Thanks a lot, Jean. As far as I understand ELI is more for describing legislation documents, FRBR is also for documents and related activities. I need something to describe relations between governance entities, like government, banks, institutions, agencies, committees, officials, their roles and hierarchical structure according to the legal environment which can be certainly different depending on location and related legislation. Describing the documents is out of scope actually. May be JOLUX could be interesting for us. Do you have a link to it?

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    Anna G.
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    And the purpose of the project is actually to make the instances of this environment (agencies, officials, boards, responsibilities, institutions etc) easily searchable with the help of the knowledge graph