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

Hi Bernadette,
Good idea to get more opinions on this! 
I think that the two audiences mentioned in Q1 and Q2 must be the same. The fact that they currently are not is the issue that I have been attempting to bring forward. It makes no sense to create a document with information meant for one audience that is written as if it were for another audience.

Q1: data publishers, broadly defined to include anyone, including developers, involved in making data available—as data—to others on the web.
Q2: ditto
Q3: It depends on the context. We should consider the needs of data consumers who are end-users as well as developers in deciding what the best practices should be. If you want to talk about "the ones interested in manipulating the data and not the ones interested in reading the data”, you are talking about developers.
Q4: data consumers are all the people who use the published data. They can be developers, re-publishers, brokers, or end users.

-Annette

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Annette Greiner
NERSC Data and Analytics Services
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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On Dec 18, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Bernadette Farias Lóscio <bfl@cin.ufpe.br> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This week we had a great discussion about the audience for the DWBP document. However, we still have some open questions:
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> 1. The Audience
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> 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.
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> Maybe, we can't reach consensus because there are two types of audience: 
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> i. The audience for the document itself. 
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> ii. The target "audience" for the BP, i.e., the ones who will execute the BP.
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> 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?
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> 2. The target audience for BP
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> 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].
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> 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.
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> Q2: What will be the target audience for the BP? Data publishers or Data Publishers and Data Consumers?
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> 3. Data consumer x Developer
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> 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].
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> 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. 
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> Q3: Should we talk about data consumers in general or just about developers?
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> 4. The role of the data consumer
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> 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. 
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> Q4: What is the role of a data consumer? 
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> 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. 
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> 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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