Dear Mr Williams,<br><br>in short: DSpace has no extensive support for versioning. Although it is possible to upload several bitstreams per bibliographic record, there is no "out of the box" functionality to have metadata per bitstream. <br>
<br>We had the same question from one of our clients, for who we implemented a way of "status management" in DSpace.<br>If users mark their submissions as "submitted", they will have the possibility to modify some fields, and upload additional files, until they mark the item as "published", after which it can no longer be modified by regular users.<br>
<br>If you're interested in this, I could make you a screencast, illustrating this proces further in detail. <br>Versioning has been a hot topic for many DSpace users, it is very likely to be included in future releases.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/21 WILLIAMS, JASON D (JASON D) <<a href="mailto:jdw@research.att.com">jdw@research.att.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Does DSpace support multiple versions of the same document?
For example, suppose I upload a document like a conference paper in a draft
form, and then later upload several updates.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">If so, what is the process for doing this? Can each version
of the document have different bibliographical information (e.g., different
titles, authors)? Is there one identifier that resolves to the latest version?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm not sure if this is in the scope of what DSpace is
trying to accomplish – I flipped through the manuals and didn't
find a reference to this. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks!</span></font></p>
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Jason Williams</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.research.att.com/info/jdw" target="_blank">www.research.att.com/info/jdw</a></span></font></p>
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