[Dspace-general] multiple versions of a document in DSpace

[Bram Luyten]

Dear Mr Williams,

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.

We had the same question from one of our clients, for who we implemented a
way of "status management" in DSpace.
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.

If you're interested in this, I could make you a screencast, illustrating
this proces further in detail.
Versioning has been a hot topic for many DSpace users, it is very likely to
be included in future releases.

with kindest regards,

Bram Luyten

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2008/5/21 WILLIAMS, JASON D (JASON D) <jdw at research.att.com>:

>  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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Thanks!
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> Jason Williams
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> AT&T Labs – Research
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> www.research.att.com/info/jdw
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