European Legislation Identifier - use cases and implementation
Nowadays legislation is widely available online and accessible in
various digital formats. However, the way in which legal information
is organised, varies across the different legal systems of EU Member
States, which tends to hinder the discovery, exchange and reuse of
this information.

The European Legislation Identifier (ELI)
[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli-register/about.html] is a solution
which aims to address this issue by providing a way to uniquely
identify national and EU legislation online. Born in the framework of
the Forum of Official Gazettes
[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/forum/luxembourg-oj], the ELI project was
officially endorsed by the Council of the European Union
[https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/]. The ELI initiative
is being driven forward by a group of EU Member States together with
the Publications Office of the EU [https://op.europa.eu/en/home]. A
dedicated Taskforce, chaired by Luxembourg, shares expertise and helps
EU Member States implement the new identifier.

To share more information on the implementation and particular use
cases of ELI, the Publications Office of the EU is organising A FREE
ONLINE WEBINAR ON 19 OCTOBER 2022 AT 10.00-12.00 CET.

The webinar will start with an introduction by John Dann
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-dann-08769183/], Director of the
Official Journal of Luxembourg [https://legilux.public.lu/] at the
Ministry of State in charge of publishing and disseminating
Luxembourg‘s legislation through the legilux.public.lu
[https://legilux.public.lu/] portal. He is the founding father of the
standard 'European Legislation Identifier', chair of the 'ELI
Taskforce' of the Council of the EU and will present how the project
started, the aim it addresses and provide a brief introduction of the
different elements of ELI, as well as the use case for Luxembourg.

Jean Delahousse [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeandelahousse/],
semantic web and knowledge graph consultant and ELI Taskforce expert
will highlight the details of the ELI project, in particular the open
ontology/data model for Official Gazettes exposing descriptions of
official legislation, as a backbone to build a coordinated and
interoperable Europe in the legal domain.

María Represa Martín, deputy director of the Documentation
Department, Official State Gazette National Agency in Spain
[https://www.boe.es/index.php?lang=en], will present the use case of
ELI for Spain. Spain has been assigning ELIs to its regulations since
2018. In a decentralised country, this implementation has not been
limited to the national level, but rather it has reached the regional
and even local level. An experience that has made it possible to lay
the foundations for interconnecting a great heterogeneity of legal
information systems, through the implementation of a unique URI
template, a set of minimum common metadata and controlled vocabulary
tables. A use case that speaks about challenges, interconnection,
interoperability and a lot of coordination. 

Thomas Francart [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasfrancart/],
knowledge engineering consultant and ELI Taskforce technical expert,
will present the use case of ELI for draft legislation (ELI-DL) and
will provide a walkthrough of the ELI and ELI-DL model to describe
legal documents and activities.

Christie Damnet
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/christie-damnet-98308618/], data and
process analyst, and Laura Liudvinavičiūtė
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-liudvinavi%C4%8Di%C5%ABt%C4%97-730a8937/],
information and communications technology (ICT) application officer,
both from the European Parliament
[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en], will present the use case
of ELI-DL for the European Parliament, applying the ELI-DL ontology as
data model in the scope of legislative applications.

Join the webinar on 19 October at 10.00 CET!
[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/endorse/follow-up-events]

This webinar is part of a series of follow-up events of the European
data conference on reference data and semantics (ENDORSE):
presentations, trainings and webinars that occur on a quarterly basis.
To find out more about the initiative, visit the ENDORSE website
[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/endorse].

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Publication Date/Time
2022-10-18T05:00:00+00:00
Learn more about ELI and its use case for draft legislation in a free
webinar on 19 October