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

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your comments! I have few comments :)

>
> *Q1: What is the real audience for the DWBP document?*
>
>
> Primarily for anyone who writes web data.  Based on how the charter was
> written: data publishers and developers.
>

+1


>
>
> *Q2: What will be the target audience for the BP? Data publishers or Data
> Publishers and Data Consumers?*
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>
>
> Agree with Annette and Makx Q1 and Q2 should be the same answer.
>

I agree! However, the group still needs to decide if there will be BP for
data publishers and developers (re-users) or just for data publishers. If
the group decides to consider just BP for data publishers, then the
audiences may be different.


>
> *Q3: Should we talk about data consumers in general or just about
> developers?*
>
>
> Yes.  I like Makx definition of developers and I'm open to this
> perspective. Data consumers are the target audience  of data on the web and
> can't be completely ignored, even if the BP document scope is limited to
> publishers.
>

+1


>
>
> *Q4: What is the role of a data consumer? *
>
>
> Consumers are the customers of data previously written by publishers and
> developers.
>
>
> Consumers retrieve data hosted on the web using HTTP methods, after
> retrieval and use of the data, and might possibly write data using HTTP
> methods.  I'm not distinguishing between those using advanced tools or
> working at an API level.
>

+1. Consumer is a general term and there will be different types of data
consumers.

kind regards,
Bernadette


>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric S
>
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Bernadette Farias Lóscio
Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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