alternate example in primer

Hi,

When preparing the PROV tutorial at ISCW'12, we discussed the example 
for alternate in the primer.

, /if a file is copied from one directory to another, we may want to say 
that (according to our model) these are both the same file, just in a 
different location. We may say that the file in the first directory, F1, 
is an alternate of the file in the second directory, F2. Note that it is 
the context (location) rather than content of the file that differs 
between the entities in this case.

/We didn't find this example as the most compelling.

  I don't think that in general, copying a file creates  an alternate. 
If file f2 is a copy of file f1, I don't know what same thing, f1 and f2 
present a same aspect of. And while there is some form of caveat 
"accordign to our model", this example may be confusing for readers.

Instead of this example, we decided to use a content negotiation example:

Dereferencing a url requesting different mime types eg. turtle or 
rdf/xml, returns two entities that are alternate of each other.

If we are in agreement, can we change the primer accordingly?

thanks,
Luc


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