In a message dated 9/13/2009 3:19:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ft2.wiki@gmail.com writes:
Papers are reviewed annually, or upon major new information, so they become a living document -- the paper on the higgs boson as it is now, and the same paper as it was a year, 2 years ago, showing the advance of knowledge and correcting itself as time passes and knowledge develops.>>
I would say that by this we'd have to mean that a paper cannot change. In that way it has to behave like a print version. Once it's set, than it can't change, otherwise the voting and review process would no longer match the current state of the paper.
Rather, like print, if a new paper is submitted, even by the same author on the same topic, it has to be a new entry in "this month's" journal, not a modification of a now-historical version.
Will
I have an old 1900's or late 1800's encyclopedia here. It says that the sun must be powered by some unknown process - they knew it couldn't be fossil fuels, but radioactivity and fusion were yet to be discovered then.
If someone writes a paper and knowledge later advances, let the paper be updated; provided the update is also peer reviewed it'll mean the topic's paper is always latest knowledge. Not how it traditionally works, but in a number of ways, better.
FT2
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:27 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/13/2009 3:19:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ft2.wiki@gmail.com writes:
Papers are reviewed annually, or upon major new information, so they become a living document -- the paper on the higgs boson as it is now, and the same paper as it was a year, 2 years ago, showing the advance of knowledge and correcting itself as time passes and knowledge
develops.>>
I would say that by this we'd have to mean that a paper cannot change. In that way it has to behave like a print version. Once it's set, than it can't change, otherwise the voting and review process would no longer match the current state of the paper.
Rather, like print, if a new paper is submitted, even by the same author on the same topic, it has to be a new entry in "this month's" journal, not a modification of a now-historical version.
Will
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