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+' ' +
+'<div class="glossary" id="glossary-entity"> ' +
+'<dfn title="concept-entity">Entities</dfn> are things in the world one ' +
+' wants to provide provenance for. For the purpose of this ' +
+' specification, things can be physical, digital, conceptual, or ' +
+' otherwise; the world may be real or imaginary. ' +
+'</div> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-activity"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="concept-activity">activity</dfn> is anything that can operate on entities. In particular, activities may produce, consume, or transform an entity. Activities that operate on digital entities may for example move, copy, or duplicate them. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-agent"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="concept-agent">agent</dfn> is a type of entity that can be associated to an activity, to indicate that it bears some form of responsibility for the activity taking ' +
+'place. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-generation"> ' +
+'<dfn id="concept-generation">Generation</dfn> is the completed production of a new entity by activity. ' +
+' This entity become available for usage after this generation. This entity did not exist before generation. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-usage"> ' +
+'<dfn id="concept-usage">Usage</dfn> is the beginning on an entity being consumed by an activity. ' +
+'Before usage, the activity had not begun to consume or use to this entity (and could not have been affected by the entity). ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-derivation"> ' +
+'<dfn id="concept-derivation">Derivation</dfn> is something by which some entity is transformed from, created from, or affected by another entity in the world.</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-plan"> ' +
+'A <dfn id="concept-plan">plan</dfn> is an entity that represent a set of ' +
+'actions or steps intended by one or more agents to achieve some goals. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-collection"> ' +
+'A <dfn id="concept-collection">collection</dfn> is an entity that has internal structure. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-accountEntity"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="concept-accountEntity">accountEntity</dfn> is an entity that is contains a bundle of provenance assertions. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-provenance"> ' +
+'<dfn>Provenance</dfn> is a record that describes the people, ' +
+'institutions, entities, and activities, involved in producing, ' +
+'influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing in the world. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-responsibilityChain"> ' +
+'A <dfn title="concept-responsibilityChain">responsibility chain</dfn> is a relation between two agents, ' +
+'indicating that a "subordinate" agent acted on behalf of a "responsible" agent, in the context of an activity. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-activityAssociation"> ' +
+'An <dfn title="concept-activityAssociation">activity association</dfn> is an assignment of responsibility to an agent for an activity, indicating that the agent had an active role in the activity. It further allows for a plan to be specified, which is the plan ' +
+'intended by the agent to achieve some goals in the context of this activity. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-generation-event"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="dfn-generation-event">entity generation event</dfn> is the <a title="event">instantaneous event</a> that marks the final instant of an entity\'s creation timespan, after which ' +
+'it is no longer available for use. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-usage-event"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="dfn-usage-event">entity usage event</dfn> is the <a title="event">instantaneous event</a> that marks the first instant of an entity\'s consumption timespan by an activity. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-destruction-event"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="dfn-destruction-event">entity destruction event</dfn> is the <a title="event">instantaneous event</a> that marks the initial instant of an entity\'s destruction timespan, after which ' +
+'it no longer becomes available for use. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-start-event"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="dfn-start-event">activity start event</dfn> is the <a title="event">instantaneous event</a> that marks the instant an activity starts. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+' ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-end-event"> ' +
+'An <dfn id="dfn-end-event">activity end event</dfn> is the <a title="event">instantaneous event</a> that marks the instant an activity ends. ' +
+'</span> ' +
+'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-event"> ' +
+'An <em>instantaneous event</em>, or <dfn id="dfn-event">event</dfn> for short, happens in the world and marks a change in the world, in its' +
+'activities and in its entities. ' +
+'</span>' +
+'</html> ' +
+' ' +
+' ' +
+' ' +
+' ' +
+' ' ;