Re: [ExternalEmail] Types of dataset

I think this is a useful way to think about the natures of datasets. 
Dodds points out the similarity to user personas in design work, which 
provide a way to think through requirements and ensure that very 
different types of users get considered. In developing personas, we drop 
out one of any pair that end up giving the same requirements. Of course, 
the requirements list will be different for different types of work, so 
the things one might drop out in addressing, say, the needs of a new 
ontology would be different from what one would drop out in developing 
best practices for data sharing. I think there are other aspects of 
datasets that could be addressed by including other lines of 
differentiation, such as whether or not a dataset contains information 
that requires safeguarding for privacy reasons, or what level of funding 
the dataset builders have at their disposal. Dodds alludes to these 
issues in the introduction but doesn't seem to develop dataset types 
that address them.

Interesting stuff; thanks for sharing.

-Annette

On 5/30/19 6:29 PM, Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) wrote:
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> Like he wrote: “This is not an exhaustive list.”
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> *From:*Car, Nicholas (L&W, Dutton Park)
> *Sent:* Friday, 31 May, 2019 04:15
> *To:* Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>
> *Cc:* public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ExternalEmail] Types of dataset
>
> He’s right about people being familiar with certain domains and thus 
> focussing on corresponding dataset types: clearly Leigh doesn’t work 
> with earth science data! Imagery/collections of images, spatial 
> layers, specialise observations data...
>
> Nick
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> Nicholas Car
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> Senior Experimental Scientist
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> CSIRO
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> nicholas.car@csiro.au <mailto:nicholas.car@csiro.au> | 0477 560 177
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>
> On 30 May 2019, at 2:56 pm, Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) 
> <Simon.Cox@csiro.au <mailto:Simon.Cox@csiro.au>> wrote:
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>     https://blog.ldodds.com/2019/05/30/how-can-we-describe-different-types-of-dataset-ten-dataset-archetypes/
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Annette Greiner
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory