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title: Terminology
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description: Terminology specific to Ocean Protocol.
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## Asset
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A data set or data service.
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## Publisher
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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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## Consumer
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Someone who wants assets. An example is a data scientist working at an economic think tank.
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## 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). The Ocean network supports many marketplaces.
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## Keeper
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A computer running a blockchain client (i.e. a blockchain node)
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where the associated blockchain network is running the Ocean Protocol
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[💧 keeper-contracts](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/keeper-contracts)
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(smart contracts).
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## Secret Store
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[Parity Secret Store](https://wiki.parity.io/Secret-Store): software for distributed key pair generation, distributed key storage, and threshold retrieval.
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