Naming Legislative Resources

In this chapter the principles of legal documents identification, as pre-condition to guarantee interoperability between legal information systems, are discussed. In particular the main initiatives aiming to provide unique identifiers to sources of law, in accordance with the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model, are presented. The http-based and URN identification schemes, based on the FRBR model, as conceived within the CEN Metalex initiative are presented.