Call for comments on open questions about the audience for the DWBP doc

Hi all,

This week we had a great discussion about the audience for the DWBP
document. However, we still have some open questions:

1. The Audience

We don't have a consensus about the audience, i.e., if both data publishers
and data consumers are the audience of the document or just data publishers.

Maybe, we can't reach consensus because there are two types of audience:

i. The audience for the document itself.

ii. The target "audience" for the BP, i.e., the ones who will execute the
BP.

These two types of audience may be different, i.e., the audience of the
document may consist of both data publishers and data consumers, but the
target audience for the BP is composed by data publishers. Even if we're
gonna have just BP for data publishers, the document may be relevant for
people interested on using the data.

*Q1: What is the real audience for the DWBP document?*


2. The target audience for BP

It is not clear if the document should have BP for data publishers and BP
for data consumers. Until now, the focus of the document is on BP for data
publishers. However, it is important to note that we already have some
requirements concerning data usage [2].

We need to decide if we're gonna have these two types of BP (BP for data
publishers and BP for data consumers) in the DWBP document or the BP for
data consumers will be in another document.

*Q2: What will be the target audience for the BP? Data publishers or Data
Publishers and Data Consumers?*

3. Data consumer x Developer

The charter uses the term developer instead of data consumer, for example,
the mission of DWBP working group is "to develop the open data ecosystem,
facilitating better communication between developers and publishers;" [1].

It is important to decide if we're gonna consider just developers or if
we're gonna use the term data consumer to denote a broader class of people
interested on using data on the Web. Note that, in this case, data consumer
denotes the ones interested on manipulating the data and not the ones
interested on reading the data.

*Q3: Should we talk about data consumers in general or just about
developers?*

4. The role of the data consumer

We also had some discussions about the role of the data consumer. It is not
clear if the data consumer is the one who manipulates data on the Web to
produce data/information to end users or if the data consumer is the end
user.

*Q4: What is the role of a data consumer? *

It would be great to have your feedback about these questions. It is
important to reach a consensus about them in order to move on the right
direction on the writing of the DWBP document.

Thanks again for all comments and suggestions!
Bernadette




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Bernadette Farias Lóscio
Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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