3. Involved parties

Described system is aimed to users (consumers of data) and for data providers.

3.1. Users

The user is a researcher who requests a specific experiment to be performed by the experimental facility, and who receives back the result of the experiment – a dataset. The user can share the data with other users. Optionally, the user also requests computational processing of the data.

Section User access to the data provides the details for the users.

3.2. Experimental facility staff

Employees of experimental facility (laboratory) where the experiments are performed and data acquired.

  • Laboratory staff reaponsible for operating the experimental equipment. From this document viewpoint, their responsibility ends at making usre the data are generated.

  • Facility IT support is responsible for running Onedata provider at the site, making sure it can access the data, as well runnig the glue fs2od software. Section Setup at facility targets this group.