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Document Versioning in Digital Libraries

Document Versioning in Digital Libraries

Mercedes Martínez-González
Copyright: © 2005 |Pages: 5
ISBN13: 9781591405603|ISBN10: 1591405602|EISBN13: 9781591407959
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch034
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Martínez-González, Mercedes. "Document Versioning in Digital Libraries." Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, edited by Laura C. Rivero, et al., IGI Global, 2005, pp. 201-205. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch034

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Martínez-González, M. (2005). Document Versioning in Digital Libraries. In L. Rivero, J. Doorn, & V. Ferraggine (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications (pp. 201-205). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch034

Chicago

Martínez-González, Mercedes. "Document Versioning in Digital Libraries." In Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, edited by Laura C. Rivero, Jorge Horacio Doorn, and Viviana E. Ferraggine, 201-205. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2005. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch034

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Abstract

Digital libraries are systems that contain organized collections of objects, serving in their most basic functions as a mirror of the traditional library that contains paper documents. Most of the information contained in the collections of a digital library consists of documents, which can evolve with time. That is, a document can be modified to obtain a new document, and digital library users may want access to any of those versions. This introduces in digital libraries the problem of versioning, a problem that has also been considered in a related community, the hypertext community(hypermedia in its most extensive acception).Some domains in which document evolution is very important are the legislative domain (Arnold-Moore, 2000; Martínez-González, 2001; Vitali, 1999), the management of errata made to scientific articles (Poworotznek, 2003) and software construction (Conradi & Westfechtel, 1998).

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