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 ### To do
 Include a function for visualizing and/or summarizing providence in an intelligble format.
 
+### Known issues
+The artifact metadata import may fail on windows PCs due to an issue parsing `.yaml` manifests.
+
 ### Example usage
 
 This example is using data derived from the [moving pictures tutorial](https://docs.qiime2.org/2018.4/tutorials/moving-pictures/).