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<section id="term-Revision">
<h3>Revision</h3>
-<p> A <dfn title="dfn-Revision">revision relation</dfn> is a particular case of <a href="#Derivation-Relation">derivation</a> that states that an entity is a revised version of another. The agent who is responsible for making the revision may optionally be specified.</p>
+<p> A <dfn title="dfn-Revision">revision</dfn> is the result of revising an entity into a revised version.
+ Deciding whether something is made available as a revision of something else usually involves an agent who takes responsibility for approving that the former is a due variant of the latter.
+ The agent who is responsible for the revision may optionally be specified.
+ Revision is a particular case of <a href="#Derivation-Relation">derivation</a> of an entity into its revised version.</p>
<p> A revision relation<span class="withAsn">, written <span class="name">wasRevisionOf(id,e2,e1,ag,attrs)</span> in PROV-ASN,</span> contains:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>id</em>: an OPTIONAL identifier for the relation;</li>
<li><em>newer</em>: the identifier of the revised entity;
<li><em>older</em>: the identifier of the older entity;
-<li><em>responsibility</em>: an OPTIONAL identifier for the agent who approved that newer entity is a variant of the older;
+<li><em>responsibility</em>: an OPTIONAL identifier for the agent who approved the newer entity as a variant of the older;
<li><em>attributes</em>: an OPTIONAL set of attribute-value pairs to further describe the properties of this relation.</li>
</ul>
@@ -1790,8 +1793,8 @@
<section id="term-traceability">
<h3>Traceability</h3>
-<p> A <dfn title="dfn-Traceability">traceability relation</dfn> between two entities <span class="name">e2</span> and <span class="name">e1</span> states a generic dependency of <span class="name">e2</span>
-on <span class="name">e1</span>. Such dependency may indicate either that <span class="name">e1</span> was necessary for <span class="name">e2</span> to be created, or that <span class="name">e1</span> bears
+<p> A <dfn title="dfn-Traceability">traceability relation</dfn> between two entities <span class="name">e2</span> and <span class="name">e1</span> is a generic dependency of <span class="name">e2</span>
+on <span class="name">e1</span> that indicates either that <span class="name">e1</span> was necessary for <span class="name">e2</span> to be created, or that <span class="name">e1</span> bears
some responsibility for <span class="name">e2</span>'s existence.