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

Wed Jan 12 23:32:03 UTC 2011

Will: we received around 180 responses about what people want from
PublicData.eu as part of the survey which we circulated at the end of
last year [1]. The results of this are now available in a PDF attached
to the following wiki page:

  https://grips.punkt.at/display/LOD2/OGD+Stakeholder+Survey+2010

I think this was the main mechanism by which it was decided we would
be collecting feedback from prospective users about what people want
from PublicData.eu. That said I would very much like to put the Use
Case Scenarios that we draft out for public comment as soon as
possible. I brought this up on a recent call, but several consortium
partners expressed reservations about making them public in their
current state. I would at least like to put *some* of the material
we've drafted out on lod2.okfn.org if possible. Perhaps the brief
descriptions of the use case scenarios to start off with. I agree with
you that soliciting for feedback early and often is a good way to go.

What do others think?

All the best,

Jonathan

[1] http://lod2.okfn.org/2010/12/02/publicdata-eu-survey-open-for-two-more-weeks/

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:03 PM, William Waites <ww at eris.okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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