The document discusses the intersection of big data and social machines within the context of the semantic web, emphasizing the development of decentralized, data-intensive systems that facilitate purposeful human interaction. It highlights the importance of understanding existing successful social machines to design future ones and addresses the socio-technical challenges involved in integrating social and computational processes. Furthermore, it calls for researchers and designers to think about their projects in terms of social machines to enhance knowledge infrastructure through policy, provenance, and composition.
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