document stage

[Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>]

Greetings,

Dying laptop drives, major grant re-writes, etc., but still pushing on 
with the XMLvoc definitions! Let's take an easy one to see if we can get 
the interest back up in this process. ;-)

The term is: "document stage."

Well, I thought it would be easy. The usual suspects, Free Online 
Dictionary of Computing, Wilde's WWW Online Glossary, and 
TechEncyclopedia all came up empty on this one.

Tried Googling, "document stage" returns 2,330 "hits," while "document 
version" returns "51,500" as of 20 June 2003.

Note that "document version" comes up blank in the ususal sources as well.

Still, I think "document version" is the more common term and suspect we 
should define it in preference to "document stage." The only counter 
argument I see is that documents do have stages in the standards 
process. Hmmm, seems like we ought to distinguish between versions and 
stages doesn't it? I could have a draft (as in document stage) that was 
the fifth revision (document version).

But then stage would refer to status of a document in a process and is 
not really a stage of the document is it? In other words, the document 
occupies a stage, so perhaps document status?

Hmmm, not as easy as I thought! Well, something to think about over the 
weekend!

Recall that August and ISO meetings are not that far away!

Will try to get back on schedule with the posting of definitions.

Hope everyone is having a great day and looking forward to a great weekend!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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