[Dspace-general] Using DSPace to version documents - check in, - check out - locking

[Scott Yeadon]

Hi Arman,

DSpace currently does not support version control (other than what you can achieve through the DC relation metadata). DSpace is really geared around holding *completed*, rarely changing works rather than in-progress works.  In 1.3.x there is author/supervisor functionality so you might want to see if that provides some help, but it won't provide you with CVS-level document control.

Scott.

Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:35:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Arman Anwar <aaanwar at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Dspace-general] Using DSPace to version documents - check in
	-	check out - locking
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Message-ID: <20060309203509.23411.qmail at web52605.mail.yahoo.com>
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Greetings,

I've kicked the tires on dspace and really like the tool.

The question that has been raised at my organization is:
Can dspace offer the check-out functionality seen in source control
systems where:

A user if they wanted to work on the document - say a requirements
document - could checkout the document and it would not be available
for view by anybody else - they would then check it back in once their
work was complete.

I quickly scanned the archives of this mailing list and did not find
anything that readily addresses this point.

Thanks,

Arman.



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