--- a/model/prov-constraints.html Mon Jul 16 20:10:33 2012 +0100
+++ b/model/prov-constraints.html Mon Jul 16 20:13:02 2012 +0100
@@ -581,6 +581,19 @@
assumptions about time. Instead, PROV talks about (identified)
events. </p>
+<p>The PROV data model is implicitly based on a notion of <dfn
+ id="dfn-event">instantaneous event</dfn>s (or just <a
+ title="instantaneous event">event</a>s), that mark
+transitions in the world. Events include generation, usage, or
+invalidation of entities, as well as starting or ending of activities. This
+notion of event is not first-class in the data model, but it is useful
+for explaining its other concepts and its semantics [[PROV-SEM]].
+Thus, events help justify <i>inferences</i> on provenance as well as
+<i>validity</i> constraints indicating when provenance is
+ self-consistent.
+
+
+
<p>Five kinds of <a title="instantaneous event">instantaneous
events</a> are used in PROV-DM. The <strong>activity start</strong>
and <strong>activity end</strong> events delimit the beginning and the
@@ -1218,26 +1231,6 @@
Uniqueness constraints are checked through <a>merging</a> pairs of
statements.
-<p>The PROV data model is implicitly based on a notion of <dfn
- id="dfn-event">instantaneous event</dfn>s (or just <a
- title="instantaneous event">event</a>s), that mark
-transitions in the world. Events include generation, usage, or
-invalidation of entities, as well as starting or ending of activities. This
-notion of event is not first-class in the data model, but it is useful
-for explaining its other concepts and its semantics [[PROV-SEM]].
-Thus, events help justify <i>inferences</i> on provenance as well as
-<i>validity</i> constraints indicating when provenance is
- self-consistent.
-
-<div class="note">Merge in event descriptions from sec. 8.4</div>
-
-
-<p> PROV-DM
-identifies five kinds of <a title="instantaneous event">instantaneous events</a>, namely <a>entity generation
-event</a>, <a>entity usage event</a>, <a>entity invalidation event</a>, <a>activity start event</a>
-and <a>activity end event</a>. PROV-DM adopts Lamport's clock
-assumptions [[CLOCK]] in the form of a reflexive, transitive partial order <a>precedes</a>
-between <a title="instantaneous event">instantaneous events</a>. </p>
<div class="note">
TODO: More about what it means for constraints to be satisfied;