OK, I think we got there! 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 Is there a metedata element that specifies a date on which the archived paper is superseded (by a new version, the formally published version, etc)?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"). But that's another matter! Chris
