--- a/model/working-copy/wd5-prov-dm-alternate.html Mon Mar 26 22:21:37 2012 +0100
+++ b/model/working-copy/wd5-prov-dm-alternate.html Mon Mar 26 22:36:42 2012 +0100
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
<p>
To allow for identifiers to be chosen freely and independently by each user, the PROV data model introduces relations
that allow entities to be linked together.
-The following two relations are introduced for expressing alternative or specialized entities. </p>
+The following two relations are introduced for expressing specialized or alternate entities. </p>
<section id="term-specialization">
@@ -261,8 +261,10 @@
<span class="glossary" id="glossary-specialization">
An entity is a <dfn id="concept-alternate">specialization</dfn> of another if they both refer to some common thing
-but the former is a more constrained entity than the former.
-</span> Examples of constraints include: a time period, abstraction, and context associated with the entity.
+but the former is a more constrained entity than the former. The common entity does not need to be identified.
+</span>
+Examples of constraints include a time period, an abstraction, and a context associated with the entity.
+
@@ -304,6 +306,7 @@
<span class="glossary" id="glossary-alternate">
An entity is <dfn id="concept-alternate">alternate</dfn> of another if they are both a specialization of some common entity.
+The common entity does not need to be identified.
</span>
@@ -324,8 +327,8 @@
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-asia-17507976">bbc:news/mobile/world-asia-17507976</a> for mobile devices.</p>
<pre class="codeexample">
entity(bbc:news/world-asia-17507976, [ prov:type="a news item"])
-entity(bbc:news/mobile/world-asia-17507976, [ prov:type="a news iterm"])
-alternateOf(bbc:news/world-asia-17507976, bbc:news/world-asia-17507976)
+entity(bbc:news/mobile/world-asia-17507976, [ prov:type="a news item"])
+alternateOf(bbc:news/world-asia-17507976, bbc:news/mobile/world-asia-17507976)
</pre>
<p>They are both specialization of an (unspecified) entity. </p>
</div>