A proposal for introducing the ECLI standard in the italian judicial documentary system

In this paper the activities for introducing the ECLI standard in the Italian judicial documentary system are described. Firstly, the specifications of ECLI for Italian case-law are proposed. Then, the ECLI implementation activities at the Court of Milan as a pilot case are illustrated, in particular a parsing strategy, based on regular expressions, able to detect case law citations, extract the metadata used by the ECLI grammar (typically used in citations) and providing automatic annotation of the references by the ECLI of the target documents. © 2013 The authors and IOS Press.