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

[William Waites]

Does this mean we've abandoned the strategy of making a public
solicitation of use cases and requirements to try to find out what
people might actually want to use such a beast for in favour of just
cleaning up what has been produced so far in the confluence wiki?

-w

* [2011-01-12 19:47:35 +0100] Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> écrit:

] 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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