Title: VIF: why versioning matters
Pages: webpage
Date Released:
URI for Output: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/vif/Problem/importance.html
Summary of contents:
The project notes the common versioning issues that repositories face.
- ” Confusion over whether an article is the published version, a copy that is identical in content to this but unformatted, a draft version, an edited version and so on.
- Repository searches yielding many results which ostensibly appear to refer to the same item, but actually vary in terms of content, formatting or propriety file type.
- Research work with multiple authors being deposited in different places at different stages of development without guidance as to which is authoritative or most recent.
- Multimedia items being handled poorly by repositories that treat them as text, and their relationship to other objects that form part of the research project being undefined by the repository.
- Vastly inconsistent approach of different repository software packages and implementations in how versions are dealt with.”
Comments:
Although this is intended to provide the context of the project, it also provides a succient introduction to the survey findings and the problem repositories face.
Filed under: Content Type - All, Level - All, Output - Reports, Recognition of challenging issues and how to address th, VIF
