Linked Democracy Foundations, Tools, and Applications
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 th
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Marta Poblet Pompeu Casanovas Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel
Linked Democracy Foundations, Tools, and Applications
SpringerBriefs in Law
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Marta Poblet Pompeu Casanovas Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel •
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Linked Democracy Foundations, Tools, and Applications
Marta Poblet Graduate School of Business and Law RMIT University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Pompeu Casanovas La Trobe Law School La Trobe University Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel Ontology Engineering Group Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) Madrid, Spain
UAB Institute of Law and Technology (IDT-UAB) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
ISSN 2192-855X ISSN 2192-8568 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Law ISBN 978-3-030-13362-7 ISBN 978-3-030-13363-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13363-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019931862 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
It is only by mobilizing knowledge that is widely dispersed across a genuinely diverse community that a free society can hope to outperform its rivals while remaining true to its values. (Ober 2008, 5)
The technologies of the twenty-first century are bringing to reality the dream of a fully connected planet. Computers, algorithms and the Internet of Things (IoT) augment exponentially our capacity to link people, data and systems as never before in history. Mobile devices, server farms and grids increase their computing power by orders of magnitude to process staggering masses of data. Refined heuristics profile our actions, predict our needs and read the source code of our thoughts. Our fridges, stoves and toasters will be soon talking to each other with no humans in the loop. Will they also conspire against us, as in a post-Orwellian IoT farm? The age of connectedness brings an unprecedented promise of exceptionally distributed data, information and knowledge. Yet, the dystopian nightmare of a metadata hydra emerging from our data lakes
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