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#765 wording tweak for @ref

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@ref reads http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.canonical.html

(reference) provides an explicit means of locating a full definition for the entity being named by means of one or more URIs.

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(reference) provides an explicit means of locating a full definition or identity for the entity being named by means of one or more URIs.

The example given is a URL to VIAF, which doesn't provide a definition, it provides an identity, as do all authority control systems, which appear to be a common use case for this attribute.

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