Ahodges/documentation/doc764

@WatsonEmily , please distribute for PM review for usability by our audience.
@jhelbert , @stroilova , @shnayder , @rocha  please review for accuracy, completeness, and level of detail, particularly wrt data czars who will need to revise scripts for post-download processing.
@mhoeber , @srpearce please copy edit.
@lamagnifica , I was wondering if this is what you meant, but there they
were looking at several 'organization' prefixes all being pulled into their
actual organization -- not sure how much we advertise that it's possible to
have multiple prefixes for the same partner. But maybe this is a minor
point.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Alison Hodges <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In docs/en_us/data/source/internal_data_formats/package.rst:
>
> > @@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
> > +.. _Package:
> > +
> > +######################################
> > +Data Delivered in Data Packages
> > +######################################
> > +
> > +For partners who are running courses on edx.org and edge.edx.org, edX regularly
> > +makes research data available for download from the Amazon S3 storage service.
> > +The *data package* that data czars download from Amazon S3 consists of a set of
> > +compressed and encrypted files that contain event logs and database snapshots
> > +for all of their organizations' edx.org and edge.edx.org courses.
>
> @stroilova <https://github.com/stroilova> wasn't there a Harvard edge
> case that surfaced a single data czar being interested in multiple
> organizations?
>
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