A European Framework for Regulating Data and Metadata Markets

In this paper we examine the possibilities offered by the EU legal framework to set and regulate a data and meta-data market. It is our contention that a policy and legally-driven market could benefit from analytical concepts - meta-rule of law, semantic web regulatory models, legal ontologies - to reduce privacy and data protection risks. We introduce a general and integrated framework, and provide examples of existing privacy ontologies and of the practical use of linked dat