The case-law standard is called ECLI. It's used in a few countries and being rolled out in more. At least one Dutch news paper uses ECLI when referring to court

The case-law standard is called ECLI. It's used in a few countries and being rolled out in more. At least one Dutch news paper uses ECLI when referring to court cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECLI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECLI http://bo-ecli.eu/ http://bo-ecli.eu/ Dutch law and government publications are available as XML and ODF. The constitution: http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001840/2008-07-15 http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001840/2008-07-15 A publication about standards: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2015-39782.html https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2015-39782.htm... Each article can be linked and documents referring to each article can be found as well. For example all known documents that link to article 5 (equality) of the constitution: http://linkeddata.overheid.nl/embedded/portal/spiegel-lijstweergave?juriconnect=jci1.3%3ac%3aBWBR0001840%26hoofdstuk%3d1%26artikel%3d1%26z%3d2008-07-15%26g%3d2008-07-15 http://linkeddata.overheid.nl/embedded/portal/spiegel-lijstw... The links are available as RDF. Currently work is underway to publish law as XML and RDF with ODF/PDF/HTML as secondary formats. This will allow embedding of data such as property lines, lists of medicines, reusable financial reports.