PubMan Duplicates

The PubMan solution should provide reasonable mechanism for detecting and handling duplicates. This page should collect related use cases.

Duplicate Detection

Question: How to identify duplicates?

Status on eDoc

• two items are considered as duplicates if they have an identifier of the same type with identical value
• the duplicate check is triggered when
  • items are copied from virtual collection to archival collection (batch)
  • one item is copied from one virtual or archival collection to another archival collection (manual)
• the duplicate check is not triggered when
  • items are moved from one archival collection to another one (batch)

Duplicate Handling

How to proceed if duplicates have been detected?

Status on eDoc

• if two items are considered as duplicates, the system ask the user if
  1. the process should be canceled
  2. a new metadata version should be created for the target item
  3. a new intellectual version should be created for the target item

Publication Management

Electronic Documentation