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

Wed Jan 12 23:38:01 UTC 2011

Excellent: many thanks for your quick repsonse Helmut! Very helpful.
Cc'ing this to the list.

All the best,

Jonathan

Jonathan

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Helmut Nagy <h.nagy at semantic-web.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>
>>  * 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?
>
> You can find the list of deliverables for WP1 here:
> https://grips.punkt.at/display/LOD2/WP1+-+Requirements%2C+System+Design+and+LOD2+Stack+Prototype**
>
> As you can see the Requirements Specification is done by SWC so we will create a document from the material in the wiki.
>
> These Requirements will be the basis for the Architecture & System Design done by tenforce.
>
> Both documents are due till M6 (February 2011)
>
>>  * 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?
>>
>
> See due till above.
>
>> ## 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?
>
> Yes
>
>>  * 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).
>>
>
> Yes
>
>> * 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.
>
> Good idea.
>
>>  * 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.
>
> Great
>
>>  * 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?
>
> Thats the rough idea we had for this UCS
>
> Regards
> Helmut
>
>

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