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<content-version-alternatives> Book Current Version Alternatives

A container element to hold multiple <content-version> elements, when a single book has more than one simultaneous version identifier and all should be recorded. For example, a book might be described with both a controlled vocabulary version phrase and a publisher or aggregator version number.

Usage/Remarks

A book should be given only a single version identifier in any given system at one time. This alternatives element is intended to hold version identifiers from different systems that all apply to the same book at the same time.

Version-naming Schemes Best Practice

A publisher wishing to use a formal versioning vocabulary/ontology, should name the vocabulary using the @vocab attribute and provide a URI or other identifier for the vocabulary using the @vocab-identifier attribute. The canonical @vocab-term may also be given if appropriate. For example: 
<content-version-alternatives>
  <content-version 
   content-version-type="vor"
   vocab="mulberry-ontology"
   vocab-identifier="http://www.mulberrytech.com/mulberry-ontology/ver-vor.pdf"
   >Mulberry Superb Version of Record</content-version>
  <content-version
    content-version-type="done" 
    vocab="mulberry-ontology"
    vocab-term="finished">Finished and approved by Legal</content-version>
</content-version-alternatives>
Related Elements
Prior or subsequent versions of a book can be tagged as <related-object> elements.
This element is a generic version number for the work. Version numbers that may be recorded in this tag set:
Attributes

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
Models and Context
May be contained in
<book-meta>, <book-part-meta>, <event-desc>
Description
<content-version> Book Current Version Status or Number, one or more
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  content-version-alternatives
                        (content-version+)                           >
Tagged Sample

A version statement and a version number

...
<content-version-alternatives>
 <content-version
   content-version-type="version-of-record"
   vocab="mulberry-ontology"
   vocab-identifier=
   "https://www.mulberrytech.com/mulberry-ontology/"
   vocab-term="VoR"
   vocab-term-identifier=
   "https://www.mulberrytech.com/mulberry-ontology/ver-vor.pdf"
   >Mulberry Version of Record</content-version>
 <content-version
   content-version-type="legal-approve-desig"
   >M26-18-153#</content-version>
</content-version-alternatives>
...
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