A Guide to describe Legislation in schema.org

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describe Legislation in schema.org </h1>  <div class="EurlexEditorial">  <div class="editorialContent"> <head> <H2>Enabling a Legal Knowledge Graph on the web</H2> </head> <hr/> <body> <p> <em>Last updated</em> : 2021-03-09</p> <p> <em>Author</em> : ELI Taskforce</p> <p> <em>Status</em> : <strong>First stable version</strong> </p> <p> <em>Feedback</em> : Please send your feedback on this document by filing an issue in the Github repository <a href="https://github.com/sparna-git/legislation-schema.org-howto" rel="noopener" target="_blank">legislation-schema.org-howto<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </p> <hr/> <ul id="markdown-toc"> <li> <a href="#welcome" id="markdown-toc-welcome">Welcome</a> </li> <li> <a href="#legislation-on-the-web-schemaorg-and-eli" id="markdown-toc-legislation-on-the-web-schemaorg-and-eli">Legislation on the web, schema.org, and ELI</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#why-describe-legislation-using-schemaorg-" id="markdown-toc-why-describe-legislation-using-schemaorg-">Why describe Legislation using schema.org ?</a> </li> <li> <a href="#resources-anchor" id="markdown-toc-resources">Resources</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#community-discussions" id="markdown-toc-community-discussions">Community discussions</a> </li> <li> <a href="#eli-ontology-guides" id="markdown-toc-eli-ontology-guides">ELI ontology guides</a> </li> <li> <a href="#eli-to-schemaorg-converter" id="markdown-toc-eli-to-schemaorg-converter">ELI to schema.org converter</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#overview-of-the-schemaorg-metadata-available-to-describe-legislation-and-why-this-is-insufficient" id="markdown-toc-overview-of-the-schemaorg-metadata-available-to-describe-legislation-and-why-this-is-insufficient">Overview of the schema.org metadata available to describe Legislation (and why this is insufficient)</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#good-practices-for-the-description-of-legislation-in-schemaorg" id="markdown-toc-good-practices-for-the-description-of-legislation-in-schemaorg">Good practices for the description of Legislation in schema.org</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#what-does-schemalegislation-means-" id="markdown-toc-what-does-schemalegislation-means-">What does schema:Legislation means ?</a> </li> <li> <a href="#base-act-amending-acts-consolidated-versions-abstract-act" id="markdown-toc-base-act-amending-acts-consolidated-versions-abstract-act">Base act, amending acts, consolidated versions, abstract act</a> </li> <li> <a href="#legal-analysis-links" id="markdown-toc-legal-analysis-links">Legal analysis links</a> </li> <li> <a href="#articles-and-subdivisions" id="markdown-toc-articles-and-subdivisions">Articles and Subdivisions</a> </li> <li> <a href="#special-relations-to-eu-directives-or-regulations-or-other-higher-level-legal-corpus" id="markdown-toc-special-relations-to-eu-directives-or-regulations-or-other-higher-level-legal-corpus">Special relations to EU directives or regulations (or other higher-level legal corpus)</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#legislation-in-schemaorg-application-profile" id="markdown-toc-legislation-in-schemaorg-application-profile">Legislation in schema.org Application Profile</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#act-base-act-or-modifying-act" id="markdown-toc-act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Act (Base act or Modifying act)</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#mandatory-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act" id="markdown-toc-mandatory-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Mandatory properties for Act (Base act or Modifying act)</a> </li> <li> <a href="#recommended-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act" id="markdown-toc-recommended-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Recommended properties for Act (Base act or Modifying act)</a> </li> <li> <a href="#optional-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act" id="markdown-toc-optional-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Optional properties for Act (Base act or Modifying act)</a> </li> <li> <a href="#example" id="markdown-toc-example">Example</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#act-consolidated-version" id="markdown-toc-act-consolidated-version">Act consolidated version</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#mandatory-properties-for-act-consolidated-version" id="markdown-toc-mandatory-properties-for-act-consolidated-version">Mandatory properties for Act consolidated version</a> </li> <li> <a href="#recommended-properties-for-act-consolidated-version" id="markdown-toc-recommended-properties-for-act-consolidated-version">Recommended properties for Act consolidated version</a> </li> <li> <a href="#optional-properties-for-act-consolidated-version" id="markdown-toc-optional-properties-for-act-consolidated-version">Optional properties for Act consolidated version</a> </li> <li> <a href="#example-1" id="markdown-toc-example-1">Example</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#abstract-act" id="markdown-toc-abstract-act">Abstract act</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#mandatory-properties-for-abstract-act" id="markdown-toc-mandatory-properties-for-abstract-act">Mandatory properties for Abstract act</a> </li> <li> <a href="#recommended-properties-for-abstract-act" id="markdown-toc-recommended-properties-for-abstract-act">Recommended properties for Abstract act</a> </li> <li> <a href="#optional-properties-for-abstract-act" id="markdown-toc-optional-properties-for-abstract-act">Optional properties for Abstract act</a> </li> <li> <a href="#example-2" id="markdown-toc-example-2">Example</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#legislation-file" id="markdown-toc-legislation-file">Legislation file</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#mandatory-properties-for-legislation-file" id="markdown-toc-mandatory-properties-for-legislation-file">Mandatory properties for Legislation file</a> </li> <li> <a href="#recommended-properties-for-legislation-file" id="markdown-toc-recommended-properties-for-legislation-file">Recommended properties for Legislation file</a> </li> <li> <a href="#optional-properties-for-legislation-file" id="markdown-toc-optional-properties-for-legislation-file">Optional properties for Legislation file</a> </li> <li> <a href="#example-3" id="markdown-toc-example-3">Example</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision" id="markdown-toc-article-or-other-subdivision">Article or other subdivision</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#mandatory-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision" id="markdown-toc-mandatory-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision">Mandatory properties for Article or other subdivision</a> </li> <li> <a href="#recommended-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision" id="markdown-toc-recommended-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision">Recommended properties for Article or other subdivision</a> </li> <li> <a href="#optional-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision" id="markdown-toc-optional-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision">Optional properties for Article or other subdivision</a> </li> <li> <a href="#example-4" id="markdown-toc-example-4">Example</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#legal-analysis-properties" id="markdown-toc-legal-analysis-properties">Legal analysis properties</a> </li> <li> <a href="#transposition-and-implementation-properties" id="markdown-toc-transposition-and-implementation-properties">Transposition and implementation properties</a> </li> <li> <a href="#semantic-pitfalls" id="markdown-toc-semantic-pitfalls">Semantic Pitfalls</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <hr/> <h2 id="welcome">Welcome</h2> <p>This guide is intended for data publishers that wish to disseminate structured metadata about legislation on the web using <strong> <a href="http://schema.org/Legislation" rel="noopener" target="_blank">schema.org Legislation extension<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </strong>. It is especially targeted at stakeholders of the <a href="./../eli-register/about.html">European Legislation Identifier (ELI)</a> initiative, that are already engaged in the dissemination of structured data using the <a href="https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ELI ontology<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a>. This guide should also be useful for:</p> <ul> <li>Official Journals of non-EU member states wishing to engage into structured data dissemination</li> <li>Local administrations creating legal act or regulations</li> <li>EU or internation institutions publishing regulations</li> <li>Private legal publishers interested in making their content more visible on the web</li> </ul> <p>This guide assumes that the reader is comfortable with schema.org, with the <a href="https://json-ld.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">JSON-LD<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> syntax, and with legislation publishing and consolidations.</p> <h2 id="legislation-on-the-web-schemaorg-and-eli">Legislation on the web, schema.org, and ELI</h2> <h3 id="why-describe-legislation-using-schemaorg-">Why describe Legislation using schema.org ?</h3> <p> <em>To share and link legislation data at web-scale, in a decentralized way</em>.</p> <p>These 2 mockups show the “dream” in terms of search use-cases around legislation in major search engines :</p> <ul> <li>A rich snippet in a search result page showing a Legislation</li> </ul> <p> <img src="./../content/images/eli/legislation-rich-snippet.png" alt="Legislation rich snippet" class="EditorialImgCenter img-responsive"/> </p> <ul> <li>A legislation shown as a knowledge graph entity on the side of a search results page :</li> </ul> <p> <img src="./../content/images/eli/legislation-knowledge-graph.png" alt="Legislation in knowledge graph" class="EditorialImgCenter img-responsive"/> </p> <p>These mockups display specific structured data about the act:</p> <ul> <li>Title of the act</li> <li>Summary</li> <li>Whether the act is still in force or not</li> <li>Keywords</li> <li>Links to latest or previous version of the legal text, with the date at which that version was published</li> <li>Number, or reference</li> <li>Jurisdiction (geographical area on which the act applies)</li> <li>Type of act</li> <li>Links to other texts (here, an abrogation link)</li> </ul> <p>These are only mockups, of course, and they do not represent a commitment of any search engine to implement this as it is depicted.</p> <h3 id="resources-anchor">Resources</h3> <p>Schema.org Legislation extension is at <a href="http://schema.org/Legislation" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <strong>http://schema.org/Legislation</strong> </a>. It was derived from the <a href="https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ELI ontology<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a>, which itself is the result of discussions amongst 14+ Official Journals of EU Member States about how to best represent and describe legislation metadata.</p> <h4 id="community-discussions">Community discussions</h4> <p>Interested readers can find more information on the community discussions that happened when the extension proposal was submitted :</p> <ul> <li>Initial proposal in <a href="https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1156" rel="noopener" target="_blank">schema.org Github issue #1156<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </li> <li>Second <a href="https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1743" rel="noopener" target="_blank">issue #1743<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </li> <li>And the third one to align it to ELI 1.3, <a href="https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/2698" rel="noopener" target="_blank">issue #2698<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </li> </ul> <h4 id="eli-ontology-guides">ELI ontology guides</h4> <p>The ELI ontology guides for publishing legislation metadata using ELI may also provide useful background information, although not targeted at schema.org :</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/514875b4-5efd-11e8-ab9c-01aa75ed71a1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ELI methodological guide<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8159b75d-5efc-11e8-ab9c-01aa75ed71a1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ELI technological guide<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> </li> </ul> <h4 id="eli-to-schemaorg-converter">ELI to schema.org converter</h4> <p>The Office of Publications of the EU has provided a <a href="https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/eli-validator/eli2sdo" rel="noopener" target="_blank">conversion tool to generate schema.org markup from ELI metadata<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a>.</p> <h3 id="overview-of-the-schemaorg-metadata-available-to-describe-legislation-and-why-this-is-insufficient">Overview of the schema.org metadata available to describe Legislation (and why this is insufficient)</h3> <p>The necessary attributes to describe legislation in schema.org are summarized in this diagram, showing how the description of legislation is mixing generic attributes available on the class <a href="http://schema.org/CreativeWork" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CreativeWork<i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a>, and specific attributes proposed for the specific description of Legislation :</p> <p> <img src="./../content/images/eli/legislation-schemaorg-diagram.png" alt="Legislation schema.org diagram" class="EditorialImgCenter img-responsive"/> </p> <p>This diagram gives a good overview of which properties are interesting/necessary for the description of legal acts, however it is not sufficient :</p> <ul> <li>It does not capture the difference between what is a “base act” published in an Official Journal, what is an amending act, what is a consolidated version, etc.</li> <li>It does not reflect the good practices in terms of legal act description, as seen in different EU Member States within the ELI Taskforce.</li> <li>It does not indicate that some properties have slightly different meaning depending on where they are expressed.</li> </ul> <p>The rest of this guide captures the good practices in terms of data modeling for the description of legal acts and how to apply them in the context of the schema.org Legislation extension. It renders these good practices as an <em>application profile</em> of schema.org for the description of legislation. It is certainly not the only and definitive solution for the description of legislation, alternative solutions are of course possible.</p> <h2 id="good-practices-for-the-description-of-legislation-in-schemaorg">Good practices for the description of Legislation in schema.org</h2> <h3 id="what-does-schemalegislation-means-">What does schema:Legislation means ?</h3> <p>The <a href="http://schema.org/Legislation" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:Legislation</code> </a> type in schema.org may be used to describe different things:</p> <ol> <li>A <strong>base act</strong> published in an Official Journal. This is the “birth” of a legal act.</li> <li>An <strong>amending act</strong>, also published in an official journal, amending the base act. This is expressed like a “diff” applied on the base act (<em>“In the base act, point 2 of article 3 is replaced by the following : ….”</em>)</li> <li>A <strong>consolidated version</strong> of the base act, as amended by one or more amending act. This is the base act, with all its “diffs” applied on it.</li> <li>The <strong>“abstract” act</strong>, that is the act as an intellectual work, independantly of one of its (consolidated) version. This is intuitively what we are using when writing a legal reference without specifying a version : <em>“Council Directive (EC) 93/104 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time [1993] OJ L307/18 (Working Time Directive)”</em>.</li> <li>An <strong>article or another subdivision</strong> inside the base act, or one of its version.</li> </ol> <h3 id="base-act-amending-acts-consolidated-versions-abstract-act">Base act, amending acts, consolidated versions, abstract act</h3> <p>The relation between the base act, its amending act, the resulting consolidated versions, and the abstract act is shown in the diagram below:</p> <p> <img src="./../content/images/eli/structure-conso-abstract.png" alt="Relation between base act, amending act, consolidated versions and abstract act" class="EditorialImgCenter img-responsive"/> </p> <p>This is the sequence of events that this diagram depicts :</p> <ol> <li>A base act is published in an Official Journal.</li> <li>Immediately, a first consolidated version of the act is produced (Consolidated act V0).</li> <li>A first amending act is published in the Official Journal.</li> <li>The base act and the first amending act are consolidated in Consolidated act V1</li> <li>A second amending act is published in the Official Journal.</li> <li>The base act, the first and second amending acts are consolidated in Consolidated act V2.</li> </ol> <p>There are a few important things to note:</p> <ul> <li>Even though the textual content of the Consolidated version V0 is identical to the base act, it is really considered as another document, hence another entity. It is usually not published by the same system, does not have the same legal value as the base act, is not under the same responsibilities, may differ in its cover page or number, is not presented in the same web page, etc. For all these reasons, it is something different - but related.</li> <li>The abstract act encompasses the successive consolidated versions of the act, but not the base act itself. The base act “gives birth to” the consolidated versions, but is not considered a version in itself; instead the consolidated version v0 represents the first version of the act.</li> <li>As they are not versionned strictly speaking, the base act and the amending acts do not have their “abstract” level, like the consolidated versions have.</li> </ul> <p>The relationships between these entities is as follow:</p> <ol> <li>The abstract act refers to its successive versions using the <a href="http://schema.org/workExample" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:workExample</code> </a> property. (in the web pages of each consolidated version, only one of these links will be present, not all).</li> <li>Each consolidated version of the act points to the base act and all the amending acts being consolidated in this version using the <a href="http://schema.org/legislationConsolidates" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationConsolidates</code> </a> property.</li> <li>The abstract act points to the base act that it derives from using the <a href="http://schema.org/isBasedOn" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:isBasedOn</code> </a> property.</li> </ol> <h3 id="legal-analysis-links">Legal analysis links</h3> <p> <a href="http://schema.org/Legislation" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:Legislation</code> </a> specifies a certain number of links between Legislation entities that pertain to <em>legal analysis</em>, that is to the analysis of the actual content of the legal act (vs. identification properties) and how it relates to other acts. These links are (click to get the definition on schema.org website):</p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationChanges" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationChanges</code> </a> and its subproperties <ul> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationAmends" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationAmends</code> </a> </li> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationRepeals" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationRepeals</code> </a> </li> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationCommences" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationCommences</code> </a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationCorrects" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationCorrects</code> </a> </li> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/citation" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:citation</code> </a> </li> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/isBasedOn" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:isBasedOn</code> </a> </li> </ul> <p>These links:</p> <ul> <li>are stated <strong>on the acts published in the Official Journal</strong> (base act or modifying act), because it is these acts that have legal value (usually).</li> <li>point to a specific consolidated version of the act being changed/corrects/cited/taken as basis, so that we know which precise version of the act the links points to.</li> <li>can be expressed as inverse links (JSON-LD <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code>) on the consolidated versions so that the data is available when browsing that version of the act.</li> <li>can point to specific article or subdivision of a consolidated version.</li> </ul> <h3 id="articles-and-subdivisions">Articles and Subdivisions</h3> <p>Articles and other subdivisions are also typed as <a href="http://schema.org/Legislation" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:Legislation</code> </a>. The whole act refers to its subdivisions using <a href="http://schema.org/hasPart" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:hasPart</code> </a>, and subdivisions can contain other subdivisions. The usage of subdivision is not mandatory, and the data can stop at describing the whole act only.</p> <p>The combination of <em>legal analysis</em> links and subdivisions is depicted in the below diagram:</p> <p> <img src="./../content/images/eli/structure-legal-analysis.png" alt="Legal Analysis links and subdivisions" class="EditorialImgCenter img-responsive"/> </p> <p>This is the content depicted in this diagram:</p> <ol> <li>The initial base act has 2 articles, article 1 and article 2. Hence the Consolidated Version V0 has the same structure.</li> <li>Modifying act 1, through its article 1, amends the article 1 of the initial act, hence the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationAmends</code> link points to the article 1 of the Consolidated Version V0, because it is the actual article being amended.</li> <li>Modifying act 1 is consolidated by the Consolidated Act V1 (link not shown for readability).</li> <li>Modifying act 2, through its article 1, repeals (cancels) the article 2 of the initial act, hence the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationRepeals</code> link points to the article 1 of the Consolidated Version V1.</li> <li>Modifying act 1 and 2 are consolidated by Consolidated Act V2, that contains only 1 article (because article 2 was repealed).</li> </ol> <h3 id="special-relations-to-eu-directives-or-regulations-or-other-higher-level-legal-corpus">Special relations to EU directives or regulations (or other higher-level legal corpus)</h3> <p>In addition to the legal analysis relationships described above that refer to acts in the same legal corpus, other links are provided to refer to acts of another legal corpus, typically to refer to EU directives or regulations that are transposed or implemented by EU Member States. This also covers Non-EU cases of local regulation applying a national legislation. The relations are:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationApplies" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationApplies</code> </a> is a generic link to state that an act somehow transfers another act into another legislative context; this link has subproperties: <ul> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationTransposes" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationTransposes</code> </a> : this link is highly specific to EU directive transposition, and has a precise, legally-binding, meaning;</li> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationEnsuresImplementationOf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:legislationEnsuresImplementationOf</code> </a> : to be used for EU regulations that are not transposed, or to state that an act makes sure there is no conflict for another act to apply;</li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="http://schema.org/sameAs" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">schema:sameAs</code> </a> : in the specific case where a legal act published in a different legal corpus is getting republished in this corpus, for example EU directives republished in national Official Journals, or national acts republished in local journals;</li> </ul> <h2 id="legislation-in-schemaorg-application-profile">Legislation in schema.org Application Profile</h2> <h3 id="act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Act (Base act or Modifying act)</h3> <p>An act as published in an official journal. The description of a base act or modifying act has the same structure.</p> <h4 id="mandatory-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Mandatory properties for Act (Base act or Modifying act)</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@id</code> </td> <td>URI</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>URI identifier for the act</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@type</code> </td> <td>fixed value <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Legislation</code> </td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Always set the type to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Legislation</code> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/name" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">name</code> </a> </td> <td>rdf:langLiteral</td> <td>1..n</td> <td>An act may have more than one title, in case it is multilingual.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/encoding" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">encoding</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#legislation-file">Legislation file</a> </td> <td>1..n</td> <td>Refers to file expressing the act, in PDF, HTML, etc. and in a given language</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="recommended-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Recommended properties for Act (Base act or Modifying act)</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/inLanguage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">inLanguage</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Language of the act. Use 2-letters language codes. Repeat if act is multilingual</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationIdentifier" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationIdentifier</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Number for the act</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationDate" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationDate</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Date at which the text became an act</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationDateVersion" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationDateVersion</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationLegalForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationLegalForce</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/LegalForceStatus" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegalForceStatus</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Can be <a href="http://schema.org/InForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">InForce</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/NotInForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">NotInForce</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/PartiallyInForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">PartiallyInForce</code> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationType" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationType</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Type of the text, as string (law, decree, etc.)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="optional-properties-for-act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Optional properties for Act (Base act or Modifying act)</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/about" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">about</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Keywords on the act, as string</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/alternateName" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">alternateName</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>alternative or short title</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/datePublished" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">datePublished</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Date of publication in the Official Journal</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/description" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">description</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/isPartOf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">isPartOf</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/PublicationIssue" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">PublicationIssue</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>The Official Journal issue in which the act was published</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationCountersignedBy" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationCountersignedBy</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationDateOfApplicability" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationDateOfApplicability</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationPassedBy" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationPassedBy</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationResponsible" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationResponsible</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/publisher" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">publisher</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Organization" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Organization</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Usually refers to the service/administration in charge of publishing legislation in an Official Journal</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/spatialCoverage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">spatialCoverage</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Place" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Place</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Jurisdiction, applicability area or sovereignity</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/temporalCoverage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">temporalCoverage</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>In force range of the act, from the date it was set in force to the date it was repealed. Use ISO 8601 time interval format, and use <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">xxxx-xx-xx/..</code> to represent an open-ended interval for acts that are still in force.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>all <a href="#legal-analysis-properties">legal analysis properties</a>.</td> <td> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>all <a href="#transposition-and-implementation-properties">transposition and implementation properties</a>.</td> <td> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="example">Example</h4> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"> <pre class="highlight"> <code>{ "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/oj", "@type" : "Legislation", "name" : [ { "@value" : "Decree of the XXXX-XX-XX regarding...", "@language" : "en" } { "@value" : "Décret du ... portant sur ...", "@language" : "fr" } ], "legislationIdentifier" : "1234-56", "legislationType" : "Decree", "inLanguage" : ["fr", "en"], "legislationDate" : "2019-09-22", "datePublished" : "2019-09-23", "isPartOf" : { "@id": "http://country.xyz/official-journal/20190923", "@type" : "PublicationIssue", "name" : "Official Journal from 2019-09-23" }, "encoding" : { ... } } </code> </pre> </div> </div> <h3 id="act-consolidated-version">Act consolidated version</h3> <p>A given consolidated version of an act. An Act consolidated version will never be described on its own, but it will always be included in the Abstract act description inside a <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">workExample</code> property (see the section on <a href="./../(#abstract-act)">Abstract act</a>.</p> <h4 id="mandatory-properties-for-act-consolidated-version">Mandatory properties for Act consolidated version</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@id</code> </td> <td>URI</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>URI identifier for this consolidated version, typically including a date to identify the version</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@type</code> </td> <td>fixed value <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Legislation</code> </td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Always set the type to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Legislation</code> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/encoding" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">encoding</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#legislation-file">Legislation file</a> </td> <td>1..n</td> <td>Refers to file expressing this act consolidated version, in PDF, HTML, etc. and in a given language</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> <a href="http://schema.org/workExample" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">workExample</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#abstract-act">Legislation (Abstract Act)</a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>An Act version must be described within the context of an Abstract Act (the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> notation indicate we are expecting this entity to be the <em>value</em> / <em>object</em> of the property, and not its subject.)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="recommended-properties-for-act-consolidated-version">Recommended properties for Act consolidated version</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/datePublished" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">datePublished</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>The date at which this version was published (not to be confused with the date at which the original base act was published in the Official Journal)</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationConsolidates" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationConsolidates</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Legislation (Base act)</a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Points to the base act and all modifying act taken into account in this version</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationLegalForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationLegalForce</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/LegalForceStatus" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegalForceStatus</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Indicate the validity of that specific version of the act, as opposed the in-force status of the whole act itself. Can be <a href="http://schema.org/InForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">InForce</code> </a> or <a href="http://schema.org/NotInForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">NotInForce</code> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/temporalCoverage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">temporalCoverage</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Place" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Place</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>The validity range of this version of the act, from the date it is consolidated to the date it is replaced by a new version. Not to be confused with the in force time span of the act itself. Use ISO 8601 time interval format, and use <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">xxxx-xx-xx/..</code> to represent an open-ended interval.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> all <a href="#legal-analysis-properties">legal analysis properties</a> </td> <td>-</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Backward links from all modifying acts that refer to this version (the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> notation indicate we are expecting this entity to be the <em>value</em> / <em>object</em> of the property, and not its subject.)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="optional-properties-for-act-consolidated-version">Optional properties for Act consolidated version</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/hasPart" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">hasPart</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">Legislation (Article or other subdivision)</a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Points to the articles or other subdivisions in this act version</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/publisher" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">publisher</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Organization" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Organization</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Usually refers to the service/administration in charge of publishing consolidated texts (could be different than the organisation publishing the Official Journal)</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/text" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">text</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>May contain the textual content of the act version, as a plain string</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/version" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">version</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="example-1">Example</h4> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"> <pre class="highlight"> <code>{ "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56", "@type" : "Legislation", "name" : [ { "@value" : "Decree of the XXXX-XX-XX regarding...", "@language" : "en" } { "@value" : "Décret du ... portant sur ...", "@language" : "fr" } ], "legislationIdentifier" : "1234-56", "legislationType" : "Decree", "inLanguage" : ["fr", "en"], "legislationDate" : "2019-09-22", "legislationLegalForce" : "InForce", "temporalCoverage" : "2019-09-22/..", "legislationDateVersion" : "2021-01-28", "isBasedOn" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/oj", "workExample" : { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301", "@type" : "Legislation", "datePublished" : "2020-03-03", "temporalCoverage" : "2020-03-01/..", "legislationLegalForce" : "NotInForce", "legislationConsolidates" : [ "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/oj", "http://country.xyz/eli/modifyingAct/ABC", "http://country.xyz/eli/modifyingAct/DEF", ], "text" : "...", "@reverse" : { "legislationAmends" : [ "http://country.xyz/eli/modifyingAct/GHI", "http://country.xyz/eli/modifyingAct/JKL" ] } "encoding" : { ... } } } </code> </pre> </div> </div> <h3 id="abstract-act">Abstract act</h3> <p>The abstract act is the one that we intuitively refer to when talking about the legislation without specifying which version we are referring to. Its metadata should contain sufficient information to be able to resolve references to this act; which precise information depends on the legal corpus.</p> <p>The Abstract act will usually be used within the markup for a specific version of the act, and include one <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">workExample</code> to point to the version visible in the current page.</p> <h4 id="mandatory-properties-for-abstract-act">Mandatory properties for Abstract act</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable">e> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@id</code> </td> <td>URI</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>URI identifier for the abstract act. This identifier must be the same for each version of the same act.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@type</code> </td> <td>fixed value <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Legislation</code> </td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Always set the type to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Legislation</code> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/name" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">name</code> </a> </td> <td>rdf:langLiteral</td> <td>1..n</td> <td>Title of the act. An act may have more than one title, in case it is multilingual.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="recommended-properties-for-abstract-act">Recommended properties for Abstract act</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/inLanguage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">inLanguage</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Use 2-letters language codes. Repeat if act is multilingual</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/isBasedOn" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">isBasedOn</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Legislation (Base Act)</a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Refers to the URI of the Base Act. Although not strictly mandatory if you describe only the abstract act, and not the base act, this is highly recommended</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationIdentifier" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationIdentifier</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Number for the act</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationDate" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationDate</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Date at which the text became an act</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationDateVersion" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationDateVersion</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationLegalForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationLegalForce</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/LegalForceStatus" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegalForceStatus</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Can be <a href="http://schema.org/InForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">InForce</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/NotInForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">NotInForce</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/PartiallyInForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">PartiallyInForce</code> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationType" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationType</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Type of the text, as string (law, decree, etc.)</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/workExample" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">workExample</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#act-consolidated-version">Legislation (Act version)</a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Refers to specific versions of this legislation</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="optional-properties-for-abstract-act">Optional properties for Abstract act</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/about" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">about</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Keywords on the act, as string</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/alternateName" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">alternateName</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>alternative or short title</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/datePublished" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">datePublished</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Date of publication in the Official Journal</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/description" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">description</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/isPartOf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">isPartOf</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/PublicationIssue" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">PublicationIssue</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>The Official Journal issue in which the act was published</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationCountersignedBy" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationCountersignedBy</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationDateOfApplicability" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationDateOfApplicability</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:date</td> <td>0..1</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationPassedBy" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationPassedBy</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationResponsible" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationResponsible</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..n</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/publisher" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">publisher</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Organization" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Organization</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Usually refers to the service/administration in charge of publishing legislation in an Official Journal</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/spatialCoverage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">spatialCoverage</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Place" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Place</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Jurisdiction, applicability area or sovereignity</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/temporalCoverage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">temporalCoverage</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>In force range of the act, from the date it was set in force to the date it was repealed. Use ISO 8601 time interval format, and use <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">xxxx-xx-xx/..</code> to represent an open-ended interval for acts that are still in force.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="example-2">Example</h4> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"> <pre class="highlight"> <code>{ "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56", "@type" : "Legislation", "name" : [ { "@value" : "Decree of the XXXX-XX-XX regarding...", "@language" : "en" } { "@value" : "Décret du ... portant sur ...", "@language" : "fr" } ], "legislationIdentifier" : "1234-56", "legislationType" : "Decree", "inLanguage" : ["fr", "en"], "legislationDate" : "2019-09-22", "legislationLegalForce" : "InForce", "temporalCoverage" : "2019-09-22/..", "legislationDateVersion" : "2021-01-28", "isBasedOn" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/oj" } </code> </pre> </div> </div> <h3 id="legislation-file">Legislation file</h3> <p>A Legislation file, or <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegislationObject</code> in schema.org naming, is the encoding of a an act, or act version, in a given language and in a given file format. An act or act version will typically be associated to different files of the same text, each in a different format and possibly a different language when the legislation is multilingual.</p> <h4 id="mandatory-properties-for-legislation-file">Mandatory properties for Legislation file</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@id</code> </td> <td>URI</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>URI identifier for the legislation object</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@type</code> </td> <td>fixed value <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegislationObject</code> </td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Always set the type to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegislationObject</code> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/contentUrl" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">contentUrl</code> </a> </td> <td>URL</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>URL of the actual file</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/encodingFormat" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">encodingFormat</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Media type as a MIME format e.g. application/pdf, text/html, application/xml</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/inLanguage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">inLanguage</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>1..n</td> <td>Language of the document. Use 2-letters language codes. In the rare case that the <em>same document</em> contains the act text in multiple languages, that property can be repeated at this level.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> <a href="http://schema.org/encoding" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">encoding</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Legislation (Base Act)</a> or <a href="#act-consolidated-version">Legislation (Act Version)</a> </td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Backward link from the base act or the act version encoded by this legislation file. (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> notation indicate we are expecting this entity to be the <em>value</em> / <em>object</em> of the property, and not its subject.)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="recommended-properties-for-legislation-file">Recommended properties for Legislation file</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationLegalValue" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationLegalValue</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/LegalValueLevel" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegalValueLevel</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>The legal value of this file. Different files may have different legal values. Typically a digitally signed PDF have a “stronger” legal value than the HTML file of the same act. Values from stronger to weaker are <a href="http://schema.org/DefinitiveLegalValue" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">DefinitiveLegalValue</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/AuthoritativeLegalValue" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">AuthoritativeLegalValue</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/OfficialLegalValue" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">OfficialLegalValue</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/UnofficialLegalValue" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">UnofficialLegalValue</code> </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="optional-properties-for-legislation-file">Optional properties for Legislation file</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/copyrightHolder" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">copyrightHolder</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Organization" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Organization</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/license" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">license</code> </a> </td> <td>URL</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>License URL of this file</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/publisher" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">publisher</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Organization" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Organization</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Publisher of the file</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="example-3">Example</h4> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"> <pre class="highlight"> <code>{ "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56", "@type" : "Legislation", "workExample" : { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301", "@type" : "Legislation", "encoding" : { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301/fr/pdf", "@type" : "LegislationObject", "inLanguage" : "fr", "encodingFormat" : "application/pdf", "contentUrl" : "http://country.xyz/wp-content/1234-56-20200301-fr.pdf", "legislationLegalValue" : "OfficialLegalValue", "license" : "...", "copyrightHolder" : "...", "publisher" : "..." }, "encoding" : { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301/en/pdf", "@type" : "LegislationObject", "inLanguage" : "en", "encodingFormat" : "application/pdf", "contentUrl" : "http://country.xyz/wp-content/1234-56-20200301-en.pdf", "legislationLegalValue" : "OfficialLegalValue" }, "encoding" : { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301/fr/html", "@type" : "LegislationObject", "inLanguage" : "fr", "encodingFormat" : "text/html", "contentUrl" : "http://country.xyz/wp-content/1234-56-20200301-fr.html", "legislationLegalValue" : "OfficialLegalValue" }, "encoding" : { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301/en/html", "@type" : "LegislationObject", "inLanguage" : "en", "encodingFormat" : "text/html", "contentUrl" : "http://country.xyz/wp-content/1234-56-20200301-en.html", "legislationLegalValue" : "OfficialLegalValue" } } } </code> </pre> </div> </div> <h3 id="article-or-other-subdivision">Article or other subdivision</h3> <p>A subdivision inside an act, or inside an act consolidated version, typically an article.</p> <h4 id="mandatory-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision">Mandatory properties for Article or other subdivision</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/name" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">name</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Display title of the article, typically “Article 2”</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationIdentifier" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationIdentifier</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>1..1</td> <td>Number of the subdivision, typically article number</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="recommended-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision">Recommended properties for Article or other subdivision</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@id</code> </td> <td>URI</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>Although not strictly mandatory, it is a good practice to assign URI identifiers to subdivisions, too</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/hasPart" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">hasPart</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">Legislation (Article or other subdivision)</a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>A subdivision may contain other subdivisions</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationLegalForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationLegalForce</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/LegalForceStatus" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">LegalForceStatus</code> </a> </td> <td>0..1</td> <td>The legal force of the article. Articles within the same act can have a different legal force. Can be <a href="http://schema.org/InForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">InForce</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/NotInForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">NotInForce</code> </a>, <a href="http://schema.org/PartiallyInForce" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">PartiallyInForce</code> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/text" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">text</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>May contain the textual content of the article, as a plain string</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="optional-properties-for-article-or-other-subdivision">Optional properties for Article or other subdivision</h4> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/spatialCoverage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">spatialCoverage</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Place" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Place</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Articles within the same act can have different applicability areas</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/temporalCoverage" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">temporalCoverage</code> </a> </td> <td>xsd:string</td> <td>0..1</td> <td>In force range of this article, from the date it was set in force to the date it was repealed. Use ISO 8601 time interval format, and use <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">xxxx-xx-xx/..</code> to represent an open-ended interval</td> </tr> <tr> <td>all <a href="#legal-analysis-properties">Legal analysis properties</a> </td> <td>Legislation (<a href="#act-consolidated-version">Act version</a> or <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">Article thereof</a>)</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>When the article is an article of a base act or a modifying act, it may have legal analysis links to act versions, or articles thereof</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> all <a href="#legal-analysis-properties">Legal analysis properties</a> </td> <td>Legislation (<a href="#act-base-act-or-modifying-act">Modifying Act</a> or <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">Article thereof</a>)</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>When the article is an article of a an act version, it may have backward legal analysis links from modifying acts ot article thereof. (the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@reverse</code> notation indicate we are expecting this entity to be the <em>value</em> / <em>object</em> of the property, and not its subject.)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h4 id="example-4">Example</h4> <div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"> <div class="highlight"> <pre class="highlight"> <code>{ "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56", "@type" : "Legislation", "workExample" : { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301", "@type" : "Legislation", "hasPart" : [ { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301/art_1", "@type" : "Legislation", "name" : "Article 1", "legislationIdentifier" : "1", "text" : "No person shall drive a vehicle on a section of road which is subject to a variable speed limit at a speed exceeding that indicated by a speed limit sign." }, { "@id" : "http://country.xyz/eli/decree/1234-56/20200301/art_2", "@type" : "Legislation", "name" : "Article 2", "legislationIdentifier" : "2", "text" : "...", "hasPart" : [ ... ] } } } </code> </pre> </div> </div> <h3 id="legal-analysis-properties">Legal analysis properties</h3> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed AllBordersTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Property</th> <th>Range</th> <th>Card.</th> <th>Usage Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/citation" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">citation</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/CreativeWork" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">CreativeWork</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Legal citation in the text</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/isBasedOn" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">isBasedOn</code> </a> </td> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/Legislation" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Legislation</code> </a> </td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Indicates that an act relies on another, typically secondary legislation is based on primary legislation, itself based on constitution. Not to be confused with an abstract act that is based on the base act.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationChanges" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationChanges</code> </a> </td> <td>Legislation (Act version or subdivision thereof)</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Indicates a modification in the legal content of the act</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationAmends" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationAmends</code> </a> </td> <td>Legislation (<a href="#act-consolidated-version">Act version</a> or <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">subdivision thereof</a>)</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>A modification in the content</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationRepeals" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationRepeals</code> </a> </td> <td>Legislation (<a href="#act-consolidated-version">Act version</a> or <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">subdivision thereof</a>)</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Cancels a legislation or an article</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationCommences" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationCommences</code> </a> </td> <td>Legislation (<a href="#act-consolidated-version">Act version</a> or <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">subdivision thereof</a>)</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Sets another legislation or article into force</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://schema.org/legislationCorrects" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">legislationCorrects</code> </a> </td> <td>Legislation (<a href="#act-consolidated-version">Act version</a> or <a href="#article-or-other-subdivision">subdivision thereof</a>)</td> <td>0..n</td> <td>Indicates a correction that does not affect the legal content of the 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