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Work level metadata Technical name Functional name CAR ML Type Fixed values Remarks Abstract Abstract 0:n Yes string CaseNumber Case number 0:n No string Contributor Contributor 0:n Yes String Using the fields ‘party’, ‘judge’ and otherThanJudge’ are recommended, ‘contributor’ can be used if no distinction can be made. Coverage Coverage 1:n Yes String — Country or territory in which the court or tribunal is seated (mandatory); — Part of a (federal) state to specify the territorial jurisdiction (optional). Creator Creator 1:n Yes String The name of the rendering court. The name of a chamber or division (if any) is preferably in ‘division’. Date Date of judgment 1:1 No Date The date the decision is publicly announced (as meant in Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights). DateDeposit Date of deposit 0:1 No Date In some jurisdictions the date of the deposit of the decision is relevant. Description Description 0:n Yes String Descriptive elements, be it in the form of keywords or headnotes Division Division 0:n Yes String Name of the chamber or division within the court that rendered the decision. GlobalAlias Global alias 0:n Yes String This can be any ‘nickname’, ‘common name’‘style of cause’ or ‘case name’ that is used within the legal community to refer to a court decision. Can also be populated with ‘parallel citations’ or identifiers assigned by legal periodicals. Importance Importance level 0:1 No String — low — medium — high This is a lowest common denominator for any kind of (legal) importance classification. — Low importance: decisions not important from a legal or societal point of view. Such decisions are a mere application of procedural or substantive law, drafted using standard formulas and/or only published to comply with a legal or policy framework. — Medium importance: decisions in which the judge has not decided on any salient legal issue, but did have room for appraisal of facts and/or weighing of evidence, or ruled on legal issues in line with existing case law. — High importance: decisions changing, refining, restricting or widening preceding case law, or rendered on a previously undecided legal topic or controversial societal issue. IsVersionOf The ECLI identifier 1:1 No string Contains both the colon variant (in the preferred casing) and the slash variant (lowercased, as a relative URI). Judge Judge 0:n Yes String Specific type of contributor NeutralCitation Neutral citation 0:1 No String In some (common law) countries a ‘neutral citation’ is used for vendor and medium neutral identification of a court decision. If known, this field can be populated with the neutral citation, to ensure international interoperability. OfficialLanguage Official language 1:n No String This is to indicate the official language(s) in which the decision was rendered. Should contain both ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 as well as the EU language code (if available) Party Party 0:n Yes String PreferredForm Preferred Form 0:1 No String — uppercase — lowercase — mixedcase This is to indicate whether in the colon based syntax the ECLI is preferred to be written upper case (default), lower case or mixed case. ProfNonJudge Involved professionals, other than judges 0:n Yes String Specific type of contributors, can be used for people professionally involved in the case, other than judges. Reference Reference 0:n Yes String/URI The element has two (mandatory) attributes: ‘type’ and ‘relation’. Possible values for the attribute ‘type’: — celex — ecli — eli — patent — patent_application — akn — other (default) Possible values for the attribute ‘relation’: — citing — citedBy — followedBy — precededBy There are some restrictions on the combination of the attributes. — ‘citing’ can relate to any type; — ‘citedBy’ can relate to ‘celex’, ‘ecli’, ‘patent’, ‘patent_application’, ‘akn’, ‘other’; — ‘followedBy’ can relate to ‘ecli’; — ‘precededBy’ can relate to ‘ecli’; ReplacedBy Replaced by 0:n No string ‘replacedBy’ is used for these situations only: — The court decision remained the same, but, due to administrative or technological failure had to be re-registered under another ECLI; this includes situations where an expression was previously registered as a separate ECLI, but is re-registered — by using ECLI-XL — as an expression of another ECLI; — An ECLI identifier that had a four digit date element has been replaced by an ECLI with a eight digit date element; — An ECLI having an ‘XX’-court code has had another ECLI assigned — not containing the ‘XX’-court code — by the same or another ECLI coordinator. Replaces Replaces 0:n No string The inverse of ReplacedBy SameAs (owl) Fixed alias 1:1 No URI This contains the absolute URI work identifier at http(s)://ecli.eu Subject Subject 0:n Yes String — civil law — commercial law — family law — insolvency law — private international law — criminal law — EU law — administrative law — tax law — international public law — constitutional law — public accounting law If used, must contain one or more of the fixed values, and may then also have additional values. Title Title 0:1 Yes String TypeDocument Type of document 1:1 Yes String — judicial decision (default) — judgment — court order — conclusion — opinion — preliminary question — preliminary decision — follow-up on preliminary decision