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-PROV-DM is a core data model for provenance, which is domain-agnotisc, but with well-defined extensibility points allowing further domain-specific and application-specific extensions to be defined.
-It is accompanied with PROV-ASN, a technology-independent abstract syntax notation, which allows
-serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human consumption,
-which facilitates its mapping to concrete syntax, and which is used as the basis for a
-formal semantics.
+PROV-DM is a core data model for provenance for building
+representations of the entities, people and processes involved in
+producing a piece of data or thing in the world. PROV-DM is
+domain-agnotisc, but with well-defined extensibility points allowing
+further domain-specific and application-specific extensions to be
+defined. It is accompanied with PROV-ASN, a technology-independent
+abstract syntax notation, which allows serializations of PROV-DM
+instances to be created for human consumption, which facilitates its
+mapping to concrete syntax, and which is used as the basis for a
+formal semantics.
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-This document is part of a set of specifications aiming to define the various aspects that are necessary to achieve the visition on inter-operable exchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments. This document defines the PROV-DM data model for provenance, accompanied with a notation to express instances of that data model for human consumption. Two other documents, to be released shortly, are: 1) a normative serialization of PROV-DM in RDF, specified by means of a mapping to the OWL2 Web Ontology Language; 2)
+This document is part of a set of specifications aiming to define the various aspects that are necessary to achieve the visition on inter-operable interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. This document defines the PROV-DM data model for provenance, accompanied with a notation to express instances of that data model for human consumption. Two other documents, to be released shortly, are: 1) a normative serialization of PROV-DM in RDF, specified by means of a mapping to the OWL2 Web Ontology Language; 2)
the mechanisms for accessing and querying provenance.
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