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Hi Elena, <br>
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I suggest having a look at the way the collections plugin works. Although not exactly what you need it is a good example of using the&nbsp; core field 'relation' to describe a new sort of relationship between two eprints items.<br>
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The original uses 'hasPart' to denote that a collection item is made up of other items. The version at github.com/eprintsug adds a reciprocal 'isPart' to the child items. It then makes use of get_all_related etc<br>
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I'd recommend a look at this to see the mechanics of a plug in that defines a new sort of internal relationship in EPrints with the hope that it would inspire you to write your own.
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Thanks, <br>
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Rory<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk &lt;eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk&gt; on behalf of Simukovic, Elena &lt;elena.simukovic@wu.ac.at&gt;<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 23 June 2015 11:00:22<br>
<b>To:</b> eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EP-tech] Re: Versioning in EPrints 3</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">we were wondering if anyone else has come across this issue so far and/or has an idea for an elegant solution. We are still very interested to hear more about your experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Elena<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"> eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
 [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Simukovic, Elena<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 18. Mai 2015 09:56<br>
<b>An:</b> eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [EP-tech] Versioning in EPrints 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">we are looking for a way to interlink different versions of an item (&#8220;version thread / tree&#8221;) that are related to each other but not necessarily in a successor-predecessor relationship. &nbsp;A common use case example is a
 (working) paper or a conference/workshop item that is revised and published later as a journal article. Yet using the metadata field &#8216;succeeds&#8216; is not appropriate in this case as both versions should be retained and not replaced; a &#8216;commentary&#8217; by EPrint Object
 definition doesn&#8217;t seem to apply neither. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We had a look f.i. at the DataCite metadata schema (<a href="http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-3/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v3.1.pdf">v3.1</a>) where this is implemented with &#8216;relationType&#8217; and controlled list values
 such as IsSupplementTo / Continues / IsVariantFormOf / IsOriginalFormOf etc. As an interim solution we were thinking of setting (external) links as &#8216;Related URLs&#8217;, however, there might be more clever ways to represent internal repository relations.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Maybe there is a way to take advantage of DataObj::EPrint's builtin *_thread (or get_all_related) methods?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks in advance and sorry if it has been discussed (resolved?) so far, we were not able to find a proper solution in the list archive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Greetings from Vienna,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Elena &amp; Gertraud</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Elena ©imukoviè, M.A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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