Versioninig?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

During Eric's presentation (which I am finding very helpful) he mentions 
that there is no "versioning" of email.

It strikes me as odd that email or any other content, which might be 
authored in a collaborative context, cannot be versioned.

I suppose if email is thought of as originating outside of the 
collaborative model then versioning may not be relevant but I would 
hesitate to say that versioning isn't relevant even there.

For example, what if I send an email that contains a proposal for 
inclusion in ICOM and then after some discussion, I revise my proposal 
such that it should be considered both an continuation of the prior 
email but also a new proposal. In that case, capturing that my second 
email is a subsequent version of the first one may (or may not) be 
important.

I suppose the more general question (which I should read the Beehive 
model to see what it says) is what relationships, such as versioning, 
that we can model between emails or other content?

Hope that everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
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