The regulatory knowledge graph project, being a demonstration project, makes some opinionated assumptions about the RDF namespaces for regulatory data subjects and predicates.
Wherever possible, the project uses preexisting schema elements from schema.org.
Consumers are advised to consider all schema elements that do not derive from schema.org are nonstandard, unofficial, unsupported, etc.
Where a Canadian regulatory body exists, the project derives a "placeholder" namespace from that body's web presence URL. It is anticipated that as these bodies adopt more mature public namespacing practices, that this project will adopt the official namespaces.
These predicates match the public property definitions.
https://schema.org/legislationChanges https://schema.org/legislationConsolidates https://schema.org/legislationDate https://schema.org/legislationIdentifier https://schema.org/name https://schema.org/url https://schema.org/wordCount
These predicates are made-upspeculative. The URIs do not correspond to any
references, so descriptions are included below.
- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/ext/enables-regulation - the subject entity is an authority that enables the object regulation.
- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/ext/enabling-act - the subject instrument is enabled by the object act of law.
- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/ext/section-count - the subject has the object number of sections. Stored as a literal, with multilingual values.
- https://www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/ext/instrument-references - the subject instrument makes reference to the object instrument.
- https://www.gazette.gc.ca/ext/cba-word-count - the subject regulation's cost-benefit analysis has the given number of words.
- https://www.gazette.gc.ca/ext/consultation-word-count - the subject regulation's consultation analysis has the given number of words.
- https://www.gazette.gc.ca/ext/rias-word-count - the subject regulation's regulatory impact assessment has the given number of words.
- https://www.gazette.gc.ca/ext/sponsor - the subject instrument is sponsored by the minister named in the object. At present, this is a string literal.
- https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/ext/department-head - the subject department is headed by the minister named in the object. This is a string literal at present.
- https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/ext/org-name - the subject department has the given organizational name. This is a string literal at present.
These are all speculative. Your mileage may vary, etc.
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https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/ext/statutory-instrument/ - entities in this namespace are Canadian statutory instruments. The namespace is suffixed with the identifier given to the instrument under the Statutory Instruments Regulations ( https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/C.R.C.,_c._1509/FullText.html ) Sections 5 and 6. Where the regulations (or practices) around setting identifiers are inconsistent between the English and French versions of the Act (ie. Section 5(b)), the specification in the English text is used for the purposes of establishing a unique identifier. Where identifiers contain
/characters, a dash-is substituted. Where identifiers contain spaces, an underscore_is substituted. The annual statutes are particularly prone to mangling in practice, so they are flattened to the form SC-0000c00. These substitutions are made to resolve regulation ID conflicts with the URI schema defined in RFC3986. Note that this namespace holds the annual statutes, the amending regulations, and their consolidated forms. -
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/ - entities in this namespace are Canadian orders-in-council. The namespace is suffixed with the numeric identifier of the order-in-council, unmodified.
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https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/orgid/ - entities in this namespace are organizations within the canadian federal government. The namespace is suffixed with the immutable PWGSC financial ID of the organization.
- https://canada.ca/ext/act-loi - A Canadian act of law. Subclass of https://schema.org/Legislation
- https://canada.ca/ext/regulation-reglement A Canadian federal regulation. Subclass of https://schema.org/Legislation
- https://canada.ca/ext/orderincouncil-decret A Canadian Order-In-Council as enacted by the Governor-In Council. Subclass of https://schema.org/Legislation