[UPS] Linking updates
Stevan Harnad
harnad@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:17:04 +0100 (BST)
I had not meant to forward the preceding message, from Steve
Hitchcock, about hep-use to UPS, but this one, about linking
versions. Apologies. -- Stevan Harnad
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:42:53 +0100
From: Robert Tansley <rht96r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Reply-To: September 1998 American Scientist Forum
<SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Re: Do not confuse LIBERATION and PUBLICATION (fwd)
Chris Armstrong <lisqual@cix.co.uk> wrote:
> My final worry (!):
> >From <http://www.eprints.org/software.html>:
> >1.Decide a maximal set of metadata fields that should be
> >stored (for example, "authors", "title", "journal",
> >"journal volume", etc.)
> >...
> >3.For each EPrint type, decide which metadata fields
> >should be stored for EPrints of that type, and which of
> >those fields are mandatory.
>
> The archive administrator can leave out
> "quality-verifying" metadata.
>
> Is there a metadata element that specifies a date on
> which the archived paper is superseded (by a new version,
> the formally published version, etc)?
>
> I always feel that browsers should have a user-switchable
> window that shows the metadata so that they are aware of
> crucial facts that may not be printed in the body of the
> paper (like "there is a more recent corrected version
> available").
Whenever you reach the abstract page of a paper of which there is a
newer version in the archive, this is clearly indicated on the
abstract page. It isn't really possible to insert this information into
the body of the paper itself.
--
Robert Tansley Tel: +44 (0) 23 80594492
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