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<font size=3>Hi MacKenzie,<br>
Your suggestion for linking versions is a good one. However, for
repositories to remain viable, we must make the posting of new versions
as easy as possible for contributors. A contributor should not have
to re-enter the same metadata and the backward links to older versions
manually when loading a new version of a paper. <br>
Sam<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:52:14
-0500<br>
From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie@MIT.EDU><br>
To: John Preston <john.preston@uwimona.edu.jm>,
dspace-general@MIT.EDU<br>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Ability to replace existing items<br><br>
<br>
Yes! And this is possible to do now within the metadata (i.e. forward and
<br>
backward links<br>
to new/old versions using their Handles, and with the default being the
<br>
latest).<br>
Hopefully a future version of DSpace will handle versions more elegantly
in <br>
the UI,<br>
but the basic concept of multiple versions all being accessible is one
that <br>
I really like.<br><br>
MacKenzie<br><br>
At 08:41 AM 1/26/2005 -0500, John Preston wrote:<br>
>Wouldn't a good compromise be to have some versioning info with
objects<br>
>that would indicate that this is a more recent version of an
original<br>
>and possibly some info on when it was checked in, etc.<br>
><br>
>We have the need for this with LO's<br>
><br>
>John<br>
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