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diff --git a/guide/src/data_model.md b/guide/src/data_model.md index a72b885d..8ee3eaa1 100644 --- a/guide/src/data_model.md +++ b/guide/src/data_model.md @@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ the same regardless of type. A specific version of any entity in the catalog is called a "revision". Revisions are generally immutable (do not change and are not editable), and are -not normally referred to directly. Instead, persistent "fatcat identifiers" can -be created, which "point to" a single revision at a time. This distinction -means that entities referred to by an identifier can change over time (as -metadata is corrected and expanded). Revision objects do not "point" back to -specific identifiers, so they are not the same as a simple "version number" for -an identifier. +not normally referred to directly. Instead, persistent "fatcat identifiers" +(`ident`) can be created, which "point to" a single revision at a time. This +distinction means that entities referred to by an identifier can change over +time (as metadata is corrected and expanded). Revision objects do not "point" +back to specific identifiers, so they are not the same as a simple "version +number" for an identifier. Identifiers also have the ability to be merged (by redirecting one identifier to another) and "deleted" (by pointing the identifier to no revision at all). |