| European Legislation Identifier | |
| Abbreviation | ELI |
|---|---|
| Status | Published |
| Year started | 2012 |
| Latest version | 1.4 |
| Organization | European Forum of Official Gazettes, Publications office of the European Union |
| Committee | ELI Task Force |
| Base standards | FRBRoo, CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model |
| Related standards | ELI-DL, SKOS, schema.org |
| Domain | Semantic Web |
| Website | eur-lex |
The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) ontology is a vocabulary for representing metadata about national and European Union (EU) legislation. It is designed to provide a standardized way to identify and describe the context and content of national or EU legislation, including its purpose, scope, relationships with other legislations and legal basis. This will guarantee easier identification, access, exchange and reuse of legislation for public authorities, professional users, academics and citizens. ELI paves the way for knowledge graphs, based on semantic web standards, of legal gazettes and official journals.[1][2][3]