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Repository for action 2017.2 on alternative encodings
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SimpleCitation #79

Closed heidivanparys closed 5 years ago

heidivanparys commented 5 years ago

I am not convinced regarding the proposal for SimpleCitation. DocumentCitation and LegislationCitation were introduced as a simplification for CI_Citation. Most of the attributes are optional, so if only mandatory attributes are given, it is not a lot of data. So how much simpler would SimpleCitation be?

I also don't agree with the statement that

It can be combined with the Property Composition to Association rule to add more information from an external register.

as that proposal says that the document/legislation should be referred to by reference, so a simpler citation is not needed at all there.

Regarding

This rule [...] removed finer grained information about dates

If the issue is that the use of CI_Date results in nested structures, which can be problematic for certain clients, how about applying a transformation as below? That solves the issues without removing finer grained information about the dates.

Original model

Transformed model

thorsten-reitz commented 5 years ago

@heidivanparys from my perspective we could also apply your proposed model. In LegislationCitation, would we also substitute the two TM_Position types?

heidivanparys commented 5 years ago

I have no idea why data type TM_Position was chosen at the time, and not Date. The definitions also use "date", so I am wondering if TM_Position isn't overkill for these attributes. Maybe someone knows the history of this? @michellutz ?

If a "date entered into force" and "date repealed" both are a date (and thus not a month or a year), then using Date instead of TM_Position for those attributes is sufficient and simpler. I would think that this is indeed the case for legal documents, but I'm far from an expert on legal matters...

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michellutz commented 5 years ago

No idea why both Date and TM_Position are used in these types. But I tend to agree that this should be harmonised (at least in the encoding).

For the simplification rule, the main idea behind DocumentCitation and LegislationCitation was indeed to simplify CI_Citation or, even better, not to use them at all, but rather point to an external register, where these documents are maintained (e.g. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2007/2/oj for the INSPIRE Directive).

So maybe the rule should focus on simplifying CI_Citation and not so much on DocumentCitation and LegislationCitation .