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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).
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## Keeper
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A computer running a blockchain client (i.e. a blockchain node) where the associated blockchain network is running the Ocean Protocol keeper contracts (smart contracts).
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## Aquarius
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Ocean-specific software to help store and manage metadata about assets (but not assets themselves). Every marketplace must run an instance of Aquarius.
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## Brizo
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Ocean-specific software to help publishers manage consumer access to their assets.
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## Secret Store
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[Parity Secret Store](https://wiki.parity.io/Secret-Store).
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## Squid
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A set of software libraries to interact with Ocean network participants, including Keepers, Aquarius, Brizo, and Secret Store. The initial libraries are in Python, JavaScript and Java.
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## Pleuston
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An example marketplace frontend implemented using React and Squid-JavaScript.
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