README.md

metadata

license: mit
language:
  - it
tags:
  - legal
  - italian-law
  - normattiva
  - voom
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

OpenNormattiva VOOM Dataset

VOOM = Vigente + Originale (abrogati) + Multivigente

Complete Italian law corpus from Normattiva, built 2026-05-10.

Contents

Track	Laws	Description
Vigente	67,052	Currently in-force laws (V track)
Abrogati	123,859	Repealed/abrogated laws (O track)
Total (laws.db)	190,911	Primary database
Multivigente	390,747	Amendment versions (M track, separate DB)

Files

File	Description	Size
data/laws.db	Primary SQLite DB (FTS5, vigente + abrogati)	~1.15 GB
data/multivigente.db	Amendment history SQLite DB (on-demand)	~2.0 GB
data/processed/laws_vigente.jsonl	In-force laws as JSONL	~935 MB
data/processed/laws_abrogati.jsonl	Abrogated laws as JSONL	~713 MB
data/processed/laws_multivigente.jsonl	Amendment versions as JSONL	~2.5 GB

Schema (laws.db — laws table)

urn TEXT PRIMARY KEY
title TEXT
type TEXT          -- legge / decreto.legge / etc.
date TEXT          -- ISO date of enactment
year INTEGER
text TEXT          -- full body text (capped at 150KB)
text_length INTEGER
article_count INTEGER
status TEXT        -- 'in_force' | 'abrogated'
source_collection TEXT
importance_score REAL  -- PageRank score

Schema (multivigente.db — law_versions table)

law_urn TEXT       -- FK to laws.urn
version_date TEXT  -- date of this amendment snapshot
title TEXT
type TEXT
year INTEGER
text TEXT          -- full text of this version
text_length INTEGER
article_count INTEGER

Source

Data sourced from the Normattiva Open Data API under the Italian Open Government License (IODL 2.0).