Dimitri Szabo (Oct 18 2024 at 12:22): Dimitri Szabo (Oct 18 2024 at 12:22):Hi!
We are often asked why the citation year does always stay the publication year of the datasets version.
I don't remember what was the rationale behind this choice, could someone refresh me on this or send me the link of where this is documented ?
This is becoming problematic for our installation as dataset can have a long history with several major versions. In the future we'd probably try to have an option so willing installation could use the major version's year instead of the first publication year, but I wanted to know the reason for the current implementation first :smile:
Sherry Lake (Oct 18 2024 at 14:23):I asked about this last year in the Google forum:
https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/PEbVR8R0O-8/m/i0yF2BteAQAJ
There is an issue about it:
https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/9674
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 18 2024 at 15:40):Yeah, this is annoying. I have a dataset that I first published in 2017 and that's the date that shows despite newer versions. I haven't gotten around to fixing it with this API: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.4/api/native-api.html#set-citation-date-field-type-for-a-dataset
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