Linked democracy : foundations, tools, and applications / by Marta Poblet, Pompeu Casanovas, Victor Rodriguez-Doncel.

1. Introduction -- 2. Linked Open Data and the Linked Data Cloud. Licenses, Rights Expression Languages, and Linked Data Banks -- 3. Crowdintelligence. Technical tools and models to develop epistemic democracy -- 4. Smart Regulations. Semantic Web Regulatory Models and a Table of Ethical Principles -- 5. Conclusions.

This open access book shows the factors linking information flow, social intelligence, rights management and modelling with epistemic democracy, offering licensed linked data along with information about the rights involved. This model of democracy for the web of data brings new challenges for the social organisation of knowledge, collective innovation, and the coordination of actions. Licensed linked data, licensed linguistic linked data, right expression languages, semantic web regulatory models, electronic institutions, artificial socio-cognitive systems are examples of regulatory and institutional design (regulations by design). The web has been massively populated with both data and services, and semantically structured data, the linked data cloud, facilitates and fosters human-machine interaction. Linked data aims to create ecosystems to make it possible to browse, discover, exploit and reuse data sets for applications. Rights Expression Languages semi-automatically regulate the use and reuse of content.