From 430d6b2d6004a3f4bcd003d23e45e8b78d989612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: trentmc <5305452+trentmc@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:46:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update terminology for v3. may deprecate more --- content/concepts/terminology.md | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/concepts/terminology.md b/content/concepts/terminology.md index fa25e6f1..ebaeba1c 100644 --- a/content/concepts/terminology.md +++ b/content/concepts/terminology.md @@ -5,18 +5,22 @@ description: Terminology specific to Ocean Protocol. ## Ocean Network -Any EVM-compatible network where Ocean [smart contracts](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/ocean-contracts) are deployed. There can be many Ocean networks and you can use the Ocean Protocol in several EVM-compatible networks, including: +Any EVM-compatible network where [Ocean smart contracts](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/ocean-contracts) are deployed. There can be many Ocean networks and you can use the Ocean Protocol in several EVM-compatible networks, including: -- Ethereum Mainnet +- [Ethereum Mainnet](https://www.ethereum.org) - Ethereum [test networks](/concepts/testnets/) -## Asset or Data Asset +## Data Service, Data Asset, Datatoken -Anything that can be registered with and made available via an Ocean Network. Examples include data sets, trained model parameters, pipelines, and data-cleaning services. +A data service may serve up a dataset or a compute service like Compute-to-Data. It's characterized by a url. + +Each data asset is represented by an ERC20 datatoken. + +You can access a data service if you send 1.0 datatokens to the Provider. ## Data Owner or Data Service Provider -Someone who has assets that they want to sell. An example is an almond distributor with 30 years of data about almond sales. +Someone who has data assets that they want to sell. An example is an almond distributor with 30 years of data about almond sales. > Initially, most data owners or data service providers will also be the publishers of their own assets. @@ -26,11 +30,13 @@ A service which mediates access to assets on behalf of data owners or data servi > Initially, most publishers will also be the owners of the assets they publish. -## Consumer +## Data Consumer -Someone who wants assets. An example is a data scientist working at an economic think tank. +Someone who buys a asset. An example is a data scientist working at an economic think tank. ## Marketplace -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). An Ocean network can support many marketplaces. +A service where publishers can list what assets they have, and consumers can see what's available then buy it. + +Metadata is information about the data asset. In Ocean, metadata is stored on-chain, but marketplaces may have a local cache for faster search.