Chris Armstrong <[email protected]> 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 which the archived paper is superseded (by a new version, 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 IAM Research Group Fax: +44 (0) 23 80592865 Electronics & Computer Science http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rht96r/ University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
