--- a/model/ProvenanceModel.html Mon Nov 07 22:54:23 2011 +0000
+++ b/model/ProvenanceModel.html Tue Nov 08 09:17:40 2011 +0000
@@ -2162,37 +2162,40 @@
<p>
A PROV-DM Literal represents a data value such as a particular string
-or number. A PROV-DM Literal is a "leaf" value, since it does not
-refer to any other PROV-DM construct. Among the PROV-DM Literals, we
-find URIs allowing outgoing relations to resources outside the scope
-of PROV-DM.
+or number. A PROV-DM Literal represents a value whose interpretation is outside the scope of PROV-DM.
</p>
<p>In PROV-ASN, a Literal's text matches the <span class="nonterminal">Literal</span> production of the grammar defined in this specification document.</p>
<div class='grammar'>
-<span class="nonterminal">Literal</span> := <span class="nonterminal">typedLiteral</span> | <span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralNoLanguage</span> | <span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralWithLanguage</span></br>
+<span class="nonterminal">Literal</span> := <span class="nonterminal">typedLiteral</span> | <span class="nonterminal">stringConvenienceNotation</span> </br>
<span class="nonterminal">typedLiteral</span> := <span class="nonterminal">quotedString</span> <span class="name">^^</span> <span class="nonterminal">Datatype</span></br>
+<span class="nonterminal">Datatype</span> := <span class="nonterminal">IRI</span></br>
+</br>
+<span class="nonterminal">stringConvenienceNotation</span> := <span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralNoLanguage</span> | <span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralWithLanguage</span></br>
<span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralNoLanguage</span> := <span class="nonterminal">quotedString</span></br>
<span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralWithLanguage</span> := <span class="nonterminal">quotedString</span> <span class="nonterminal">languageTag</span></br>
-<span class="nonterminal">Datatype</span> := <span class="nonterminal">IRI</span></br>
<span class="nonterminal">languageTag</span> := <em>@ (U+40) by followed a nonempty sequence of characters matching the langtag production from [[!BCP47]]</em>
</div>
-<p><span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralNoLanguage</span> and
+<p>The non terminals <span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralNoLanguage</span> and
<span class="nonterminal">stringLiteralWithLanguage</span>
-are syntactic sugar for quoted strings with datatype IRI <span class="name">xsd:string</span>.
+are syntactic sugar for quoted strings with datatype <span class="name">xsd:string</span>.
</p>
+<p> In particular, a PROV-DM Literal may be a URI-typed string (with datatype <span class="name">xsd:anyURI</span>), or URI-denoted resource (with datatype <span class="name">rdf:resource</span>); in either case; such URI has no specific interpretation int he context of PROV-DM.</p>
+
+
<p>
-The following examples respectively are the string "abc", the string "abc" with language english, the string "abc", the integer number "1", and the URI "http://example.org/foo"
+The following examples respectively are the string "abc", the string "abc" with language english, the string "abc", the integer number "1", the URI "http://example.org/foo", and the resource denoted by "http://example.org/foo"
<pre class="example">
"abc"
"abc"@en
"abc"^^xsd:string
"1"^^xsd:int
"http://example.org/foo"^^xsd:anyURI
+ "http://example.org/foo"^^rdf:resource
</pre>