[Dspace-general] Version Control

[MacKenzie Smith]

This is certainly a potential problem in IRs (as it always was in print for 
unpublished material). Within the context of the DSpace Federation it might 
be possible, over time, to build in duplicate-detection routines that work 
across DSpace instances using agreed upon Web Services or the like. Of 
course, that will only work as well as the metadata available, which might 
vary considerably from one institution to the next. Given the archival 
nature of IRs, can you say a bit more about why you think duplicate copies 
of material would be a big problem? Is it for forward refencing in the case 
where a new version is deposited at one institution but not the others?

MacKenzie

At 11:13 AM 4/2/2004 -0600, Gherman, Paul M wrote:
>Another question. Has anyone thought about how we can maintain version 
>control between IR's, if faculty, as co-authors from different 
>institutions each contribute their papers to their own campus IR. I can 
>see the same paper having multiple permanent URLs. Or even worse that 
>different versions of the same paper are posted to different IRs with 
>different permanent URLs.
>
>Paul
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