provo narrative
authorTim L <lebot@rpi.edu>
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:55:55 -0400
changeset 3601 a436e511b777
parent 3600 4231a510425e
child 3602 090dce0eae1b
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 21:50:33 2012 -0400
+++ b/ontology/prov-o-html-sections/description-starting-points.inc.html	Mon Jul 02 21:55:55 2012 -0400
@@ -14,15 +14,17 @@
       <p>The three primary classes relate to one another and to themselves using the properties shown in the following figure.</p>
 
       <p>Activities <strong>start</strong> and <strong>end</strong> at particular points in time (described using properties 
-      <a href='#startedAtTime' class="qname">prov:startedAtTime</a> and <a href='#endedAtTime' class="qname">prov:endedAtTime</a>, respectively). 
-      Activities can <strong>use</strong> Entities during their lifespan and can also <strong>generate</strong> other Entities (described using 
+      <a href='#startedAtTime' class="qname">prov:startedAtTime</a> and <a href='#endedAtTime' class="qname">prov:endedAtTime</a>, respectively), and they 
+      <strong>use</strong> Entities during their lifespan and can also <strong>generate</strong> other Entities (described using 
       <a href='#used' class="qname">prov:used</a> and <a href='#wasGeneratedBy' class="qname">prov:wasGeneratedBy</a>, respectively). 
       For example, a blog writing activity may use a particular dataset and generate a bar chart. Provenance chains of alternating Activities and 
-      Entities can be created with usage and generation. In addiition, we can say that an Activity <a href='#wasInformedBy' class="qname">prov:wasInformedBy</a>
+      Entities can be created with usage and generation.
+      </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. 
-      A <span class="repeated">prov:wasInformedBy</span> relation among Activities suggests that the informed Activity used an Entity that was generated the informing 
-      Activity, but the Entity is itself is not of interest. Thus, the 
-      <span class="repeated">prov:wasInformedBy</span> allows the assertion of provenance chains comprising only Activities.
+      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.
       </p>
 
       <p>