[publicdata-eu] Next steps for PublicData.eu requirements

Wed Jan 12 18:47:35 UTC 2011

Friedrich and I are currently sitting down going through the
preliminary requirements documents for WP9 on the wiki [1], ahead of
the meeting we are having in January in Brussels [2].

We have a few questions about the process and a few comments/questions
regarding the draft material.

## Questions about the requirements process

  * Can someone give us an overview of what will happen next with the
draft requirements material on the wiki? Is Tenforce going to clean
this up and turn it into prose?
  * How will be able to participate in this process? Is next week the
last opportunity we'll have to provide input, or will we be able to
continue to do so on an iterative basis?

## Comments questions about the material on the wiki

  * As we discussed on the call earlier we'd like to propose to merge
UCS 4 into UCS 3, as we think there are strong overlaps. Is everyone
happy with this?
  * We've done some light editing, but we are thinking of doing some
more substantial revisions to the material on the wiki. Should we just
go ahead and do this (given that all changes are versioned).
  * We'd like to propose a sharp distinction between the catalogue
(dealing with metadata about datasets) and the repository (which will
cache/store datasets). This is clear in many parts of the text, but
we'd like to go through clarifying which we mean when we are talking
about different features. For us the main priority of PublicData.eu is
the metadata, and the dataset storage functions will be very much
secondary.
  * In several places we talk about 'centralised metadata catalogue'
but we'd like to clarify what is meant by this. Currently we're
envisaging that one of the big challenges with PublicData.eu will be
federating different sources of metadata from lots of different
places.
  * Perhaps we could rename UCS 7 to 'Ancillary Services' and include
in this all kinds of valuable bits and pieces that are not part of the
core research / technology development in UCS 1-6, such as guidance
for data publishers (including legal / licensing information and
technical standards), fora for users (where can I find this kind of
data?), and so on. E.g. should this include task 9.3 and 9.4?

Thanks!

All the best,

Jonathan

[1] https://grips.punkt.at/display/LOD2/Requirements+Elicitation+OGD
[2] https://grips.punkt.at/display/LOD2/Co-ordination+WP1

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