Minor version number is not included in citation

[mankoff]

The minor version number is not included in the reference. For example, going to

https://demo.dataverse.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.70122/FK2/EIB6CG&version=DRAFT

The yellow info box states, Info – The "DRAFT" version was not found. This is version "3.1"., but the citation is: mankoff, ken, 2020, "test for file replacement", https://doi.org/10.70122/FK2/EIB6CG, Demo Dataverse, V3. Note V3 at the end, not V3.1.

[pdurbin]

My understanding is that is it by design that the citation only shows major versions (V3) instead of minor versions (V3.1).

[mankoff]

That may be, in which case please consider this a feature request to change that design?

Metadata is important (I assume we agree on this) and changing it may have downstream impacts. I don't see any good reason to hide those changes.

[BPeuch]

Seconded!

[pdurbin]

I changed "reference" to "citation" in the title. We get lots of requests for more flexibility in how the citation is displayed. I believe this is the oldest such issue:

• Dataset Citation: provide flexible options for information displayed in citation metadata #2297

If we make the proposed change it should probably be configurable in case existing installations like the current behavior.

[cmbz]

To focus on the most important features and bugs, we are closing issues created before 2020 (version 5.0) that are not new feature requests with the label 'Type: Feature'.

If you created this issue and you feel the team should revisit this decision, please reopen the issue and leave a comment.