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European Legislation Identifier (ELI)

Informasjon om ELI på norsk

ELI is a pan-european standard developed in a joint effort by EU member states with participation from several non-members, including Norway.

Lovdata offers ELI URIs as an alternative to our existing legislation URIs. The format and guidelines for usage is documented below, and for further information on ELI we recommend the following resources:

ELI implementation at Lovdata

ELI URIs

URIs should be prepended with https://lovdata.no and follow this template:

/eli/{type}/{year}/{month}/{day}/{natural_identifier}/{level…}/{version}/{point in time}/{language}/{format}
Type
The document type. Should be one of lov|forskrift
Year
The year of promulgation, example 2005
Month
The month of promulgation, example 5
Day
The day of promulgation, example 20
Natural identifier
Number providing unique ID, provided by law maker Example: 20, for some older legislation this is not applicable so use 0
Level
Citing parts of the documents, generally in accordance with regular citation formats used in norway, example section/1/sentence/2, chapter/2. Using this in URIs doesn't currently provide any functionality.
Version
Whether to refer to the original journal or consolidated texts (default): empty or one of oj|consolidated
Point in time
A former consolidated version specified by date: 2010-05-02
Language
The language of the expression of the work. Most documents are provided in only one language, which is either norwegian bokmål or nynorsk - use no to refer to the available expression. One of no|nb|nn

Examples:

  • The penal code of 2005 as a work: /eli/lov/2005/05/20/28
  • The penal code of 2005 expressed as norwegian: /eli/lov/2005/05/20/28/no
  • The penal code of 2005 expressed as norwegian in html format: /eli/lov/2005/05/20/28/no/html
  • The penal code of 2005, section 152: /eli/lov/2005/05/20/28/section/152
  • The penal code of 2005, original journal: /eli/lov/2005/05/20/28/oj
  • The penal code of 2005, version from 2009-06-19: /eli/lov/2005/05/20/28/2009-06-19
  • The constitution as a work: /eli/lov/1814/5/17/0
  • The constitution expressed as nynorsk: /eli/lov/1814/5/17/0/nno
  • The constitution in nynorsk in HTML format: /eli/lov/1814/5/17/0/nno/html

ELI Metadata

All pages reached by ELI URIs contain metadata in both human readable (HTML) format and are also tagged with semantic RDFa attributes adhering to the ELI Ontology, and using the following custom vocabulary for permitted fields:

  • Type: lov for laws and forskrift for regulations
  • Version: consolidated|official journal|historic

Get started

To facilitate easy exploration of our ELI structures you can visit one of these URIs that allow listing available documents etc.: