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2. Audience
This document provides guidance to those who publish data on the Web, but also to those who consume data on the Web. These best practices have been written to meet the needs of many different audiences from developers and information management staff to scientists interested on sharing data on the Web. Every attempt has been made to make the document as readable and usable as possible while still retaining the accuracy and clarity needed in a technical specification.
Readers of this document are expected to be familiar with some fundamental concepts of the architecture of the Web [1], such as resources and URIs, as well as open data formats [ref]. Basic knowledge about vocabularies and ontologies would be helpful to better understand some aspects of this document.
