IVOA provenance DM
PR2 25 March 2019
Class
It describes the constraints to obey for an Entity before being used or produced by an Activity. Information can be on : format, encoding, size, version? , etc .
The values stored for an EntityDescription attribute will/could be differentwhether the Entity is linked via a Used link or via a WasGeneratedBy link.
Example:
Regridding activities gets input image files from various filters or various exposures in the same filter.
- The required format is FITS, with encoding 32 bits /pixels
- The output entities are one regridded image, that can be a Fits image again and a positional error map (astrometry confidence) that can be either a preview image stored in JPEG or a FITS image .
EntityDescription