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Two dates in IEEE identifiers #115

Closed mico closed 1 month ago

mico commented 3 months ago

Identifier IEEE 16085-2020:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9373052/versions#versions

image what these 2 dates in identifiers means?

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Date of Publication: 15 January 2021 So 2020 is not publication date, but what is that, edition date?

ronaldtse commented 3 months ago

@mico likely the IEEE side assigned it a 2020 number but it got published later in 2021.

Is this significant?

mico commented 3 months ago

Is this significant?

This is related to questions in #116 for the sense of clarification on dates.

The problem with IEEE 16085-2020 - publication date here is year 2020, but on the page https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9373052 it says publication date is "15 January 2021". But we just use year 2020 because we don't know actual publication date, right?

opoudjis commented 3 months ago

We have here an arbitrarily assigned, nominal publication date, assigned ahead of time; and a real life publication date, where the schedule of publication slipped.

If you are reconstructing the document history, the actual publication date matters. For the purposes of document identifiers, I believe it does not matter: we treat the assigned publication date as the only publication date, because after all it is the only date that makes it into the identifier.

So if you're processing metadata, and the metadata contradicts the identifier content, then yeah, the identifier content must take precedent.

opoudjis commented 1 month ago

Does this issue need to remain open?