Hi Augustina,

I have investigated the item versioning functions recently on version 5.6 
(JSPUI). Unfortunately my impression was not so good. There were several 
issues with it:
* only the admin can add versions of an item, the author or editor or 
anyone else can't do that
* the handle will be kept for the most recent version (canonical handle) 
instead of the original one, i.e. that the handle for the original version 
will change! For our use case this is definitely not what we want. And as 
far as I saw that, this behaviour cannot get changed in version 5.6 (but in 
version 6)
* the submitter is displayed in the version history

All of these issues have been addressed in version 6 and I guess they are 
solved. But there may be other reasons not to switch to version 6 right 
now. Version 6 also supports DOI versioning, in version 5 out of the box a 
completely new DOI will be generated for the new item.

>From these test results I would recommend not to use item versioning before 
version 6 - but this may depend on your exact use cases and perhaps on your 
UI (as I mentioned I tested on JSPUI only). Obviously in other cases this 
works pretty fine, as Fernanda pointed out.

Best regards
Oliver

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017 07:12:15 UTC+2 schrieb [email protected]:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Quick question, do you have item versioning enabled in your DSpace 
> repository? If so, how is the experience, have you encountered any issues?
>
> I'd be interested to know because we are exploring enabling it as we are 
> looking into supporting DOI versioning.
>
> Many thanks,
> Agustina
>

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