provo narrative
authorTim L <lebot@rpi.edu>
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:06:55 -0400
changeset 3604 53977ee48701
parent 3603 312ab4026379
child 3605 63c258bc960e
provo narrative
ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-starting-points.inc.html
--- a/ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-starting-points.inc.html	Mon Jul 02 22:01:50 2012 -0400
+++ b/ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-starting-points.inc.html	Mon Jul 02 22:06:55 2012 -0400
@@ -24,11 +24,12 @@
       <p>In addiition, we can say that an Activity <a href='#wasInformedBy' class="qname">prov:wasInformedBy</a>
       another Activity to provide some ordering information without explicitly mentioning the activities' start and end times. 
       A <span class="repeated">prov:wasInformedBy</span> relation between Activities suggests that the informed Activity used an Entity that was generated by the informing 
-      Activity, but the Entity is itself is not of interest. The <span class="repeated">prov:wasInformedBy</span> allows the assertion of provenance chains comprising only Activities.
+      Activity, but the Entity is itself is not interesting. So, the <span class="repeated">prov:wasInformedBy</span> property allows the assertion of provenance chains comprising only Activities.
       </p>
 
-      <p>To form provenance chains of only Entities, the <a href='#wasDerivedFrom' class="qname">prov:wasDerivedFrom</a> property. 
-         A derivation is a transformation of an entity into another. Arbitrary RDF properties can be used to describe the 
+      <p>The <a href='#wasDerivedFrom' class="qname">prov:wasDerivedFrom</a> property can be used to form provenance chains of only Entities.
+         A derivation is a transformation of one entity into another. For example, if the Activity that created the bar chart is not interesting,
+          the we can say that the bar chart <span class="repeated">prov:wasDerivedFrom</span> the dataset. Arbitrary RDF properties can be used to describe the 
          fixed aspects of an Entity that are interesting to a particular application.
       </p>