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The case-law standard is called ECLI. It's used in a few countries and being rolled out in more. At least one Dutch news paper uses ECLI when referring to court cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECLI http://bo-ecli.eu/

Dutch law and government publications are available as XML and ODF.

The constitution: http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001840/2008-07-15

A publication about standards: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2015-39782.htm...

Each article can be linked and documents referring to each article can be found as well.

For example all known documents that link to article 5 (equality) of the constitution:

http://linkeddata.overheid.nl/embedded/portal/spiegel-lijstw...

The links are available as RDF.

Currently work is underway to publish law as XML and RDF with ODF/PDF/HTML as secondary formats. This will allow embedding of data such as property lines, lists of medicines, reusable financial reports.




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