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title: Terminology
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description: Terminology specific to Ocean Protocol.
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## Ocean Network
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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:
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- [Ethereum Mainnet](https://www.ethereum.org)
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- Ethereum [test networks](/concepts/testnets/)
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## Data Service, Data Asset, Datatoken
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A data service may serve up a dataset or a compute service like Compute-to-Data. It's characterized by a url.
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Each data asset is represented by an ERC20 datatoken.
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You can access a data service if you send 1.0 datatokens to the Provider.
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## Data Owner or Data Service Provider
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Someone who has data assets that they want to sell. An example is an almond distributor with 30 years of data about almond sales.
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> Initially, most data owners or data service providers will also be the publishers of their own assets.
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## Publisher
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A service which mediates access to assets on behalf of data owners or data service providers.
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> Initially, most publishers will also be the owners of the assets they publish.
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## Data Consumer
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Someone who buys a asset. 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.
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Metadata is information about the data asset. In Ocean, metadata is stored on-chain, but marketplaces may have a local cache for faster search.
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