legalis-lod

Linked Open Data (RDF/TTL/JSON-LD) export for Legalis-RS.

Overview

legalis-lod enables exporting legal statutes to semantic web formats, making them compatible with Linked Open Data ecosystems and enabling machine-readable legal knowledge graphs.

Features

• Multiple RDF Formats: Turtle, N-Triples, RDF/XML, JSON-LD
• Standard Vocabularies: ELI, Dublin Core, FRBR
• Semantic Web Compatible: Interoperable with legal ontologies
• Configurable Namespaces: Custom URI patterns

Supported Formats

Usage

use legalis_lod::{LodExporter, RdfFormat, ExportConfig};
use legalis_core::Statute;

let statute = /* ... */;

// Create exporter with custom base URI
let config = ExportConfig::new()
    .with_base_uri("https://example.org/laws/")
    .with_format(RdfFormat::Turtle);

let exporter = LodExporter::new(config);
let turtle = exporter.export(&statute)?;

// Export as JSON-LD for web APIs
let jsonld = exporter.export_jsonld(&statute)?;

Output Example (Turtle)

@prefix eli: <http://data.europa.eu/eli/ontology#> .
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .

<https://example.org/laws/adult-rights>
    a eli:LegalResource ;
    eli:id_local "adult-rights" ;
    dct:title "Adult Rights" ;
    eli:jurisdiction "US" ;
    eli:version "1" .

Vocabularies

CLI Integration

# Export to Turtle
legalis lod input.legalis --format turtle

# Export to JSON-LD with custom base URI
legalis lod input.legalis --format jsonld --base-uri https://example.org/

# Export multiple statutes
legalis lod *.legalis --format ntriples > laws.nt

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0