[Dspace-general] Re: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 18, Issue 15

[MacKenzie Smith]

Sounds very reasonable, but requires some programming in the submission UI 
which no one yet as signed up for...
If it's an urgent problem then hopefully someone will step up to this (hint 
hint).

MacKenzie

At 12:07 PM 1/26/2005 -0500, Sam Kalb wrote:
>Hi MacKenzie,
>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.
>Sam
>
>
>>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:52:14 -0500
>>From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie at MIT.EDU>
>>To: John Preston <john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm>, dspace-general at MIT.EDU
>>Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Ability to replace existing items
>>
>>
>>Yes! And this is possible to do now within the metadata (i.e. forward and
>>backward links
>>to new/old versions using their Handles, and with the default being the
>>latest).
>>Hopefully a future version of DSpace will handle versions more elegantly in
>>the UI,
>>but the basic concept of multiple versions all being accessible is one that
>>I really like.
>>
>>MacKenzie
>>
>>At 08:41 AM 1/26/2005 -0500, John Preston wrote:
>> >Wouldn't a good compromise be to have some versioning info with objects
>> >that would indicate that this is a more recent version of an original
>> >and possibly some info on when it was checked in, etc.
>> >
>> >We have the need for this with LO's
>> >
>> >John
>> >
>
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