provo narrative
authorTim L <lebot@rpi.edu>
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:34:41 -0400
changeset 3924 22bfeb568663
parent 3921 30115ef70000
child 3925 fa59f2c53827
provo narrative
ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-expanded-terms.inc.html
ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-starting-points.inc.html
--- a/ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-expanded-terms.inc.html	Tue Jul 10 18:06:03 2012 -0400
+++ b/ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-expanded-terms.inc.html	Tue Jul 10 18:34:41 2012 -0400
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 		   </p>
 		   <p>
 		   However, shortly after having published the post, Derek detects a typo. He does not want to record the activity that led to the new version, so he just creates a new version and 
-		   summarizes the changes in a revision of the original post(<code>ex:post9821v2</code>). This revision is also a specialization of the original post, since it is a refined version. 
+		   summarizes the changes in a revision of the original post (<code>ex:post9821v2</code>). This revision is also a specialization of the original post, since it is a refined version. 
          Thus, the permalink to the latest version (<code>ex:more-crime-happens-in-cities</code>) remains the same in the new revision, but a different URL is given for its snapshot (<code>ex:postContent1</code>).
 		   </p>		   
 		   
--- a/ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-starting-points.inc.html	Tue Jul 10 18:06:03 2012 -0400
+++ b/ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-starting-points.inc.html	Tue Jul 10 18:34:41 2012 -0400
@@ -22,13 +22,14 @@
       </p>
 
       <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. 
+      another Activity to provide some dependency information without explicitly providing 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 itself is not interesting. So, the <span class="repeated">prov:wasInformedBy</span> property allows the assertion of provenance chains comprising only Activities.
+      Activity, but the Entity itself is not interesting or is unknown. 
+      So, the <span class="repeated">prov:wasInformedBy</span> property allows the assertion of provenance chains comprising only Activities.
       </p>
 
       <p>Provenance chains comprising only Entities can be formed using the <a href='#wasDerivedFrom' class="qname">prov:wasDerivedFrom</a> property.
-         A derivation is a transformation of one entity into another. For example, if the Activity that created the bar chart is not interesting,
+         A derivation is a transformation of one entity into another. For example, if the Activity that created the bar chart is not interesting or is unknown,
           then 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 (for example, 
          the file size and format of the dataset, or the aspect ratio of the bar chart).