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title: Terminology
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description: Terminology specific to Ocean Protocol.
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---
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## Asset or Data Asset
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Anything that can be registered with and made available via the Ocean Network. Examples include data sets, trained model parameters, pipelines, and data-cleaning services.
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## Data Owner or Data Service Provider
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Someone who has assets that they want to sell (or give away freely). An example is an almond distributor with 30 years of data about almond sales.
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Note: Initially, most data owners or data service providers will also be the publishers of their own assets.
## Publisher
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A service which mediates access to assets on behalf of data owners or data service providers.
Note: Initially, most publishers will also be the owners of the assets they publish.
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## Consumer
Someone who wants assets. An example is a data scientist working at an economic think tank.
## Marketplace
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A service where publishers can list what assets they have, and consumers can see what's available then buy it (or get it for free). Every marketplace has a database where they store metadata about the assets they know about (but not the assets themselves). The Ocean network supports many marketplaces.
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## Verifier
A person or a software service that checks some steps in transactions. For example, a verifier might check to see if a cryptographic signature is valid and then get rewarded for doing so.
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## Service Execution Agreement (SEA) or Service Agreement
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A contract-like agreement between a publisher, a consumer, and a verifier, specifying what assets are to be delivered (from publisher to consumer), the conditions that must be met, and the rewards for fulfilling the conditions.
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We published an [Ocean Protocol blog post that explains SEAs in more detail](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/exploring-the-sea-service-execution-agreements-65f7523d85e2). [OEP-11](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/OEPs/tree/master/11) is a technical specification of how SEAs mediate access control.
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## More Terminology
- See [the page about Ocean's Software Components](/concepts/components/).
- See [the page about wallets (and other Ethereum terminology)](/concepts/wallets/).