Manifold Atlas:Evolving pages and static pages

This page describes the differing roles of static and evolving pages in the Manifold Atlas.

Evolving pages provide the forum for knowledge organisation and creation in the Atlas whereas static pages are the place where refereed information is stored.

1 Evolving Pages

• The evolving pages of the Atlas are its main engine: they are the place where knowledge is organised and created.
• Of course evolving pages can be either open-eiting or author-based pages.
• Evolving pages are not strongly scientifically citable but of course they can be cited in the way that authors will cite, for example, personal correspondence.
• The logs of the Manifold Atlas preserve the revisions of evolving pages:
  • the revision history of a page can be viewed by clicking the link history at the top of the page
  • each revision of a page has a revision number which is at the end of its URL and can be used to refer to that specific revision.

1.1 Approval

• An important goal of an evolving page is maturity after which is refereed and hopefully approved.
• On approval a static version of the approved dynamic page is created as a long term scientific reference.
  • The name of the static page is Evolving page name/nth Edition
• The dynamic page is free to continue evolving.
• Approved evolving pages bear an editorial message which links to the static verion of the page.

2 Static Pages

• The static pages of the Atlas realise its long-term scientific function or providing journal standard, citable reference for the study of manifolds.
• Static pages will be preserved as scientifically citable documents in the strong sense that their hard-copy text will be kept for precise reference.
• The content of static pages has been approved by the editorial board via a rigorous editorial process.
• Static pages are instantly recognisable by
  • the blue approval message they carry in their header
  • the suffix /nth Edition in their title.

2.1 What is preserved?

• As a citable scientific document, a static article should be viewed with “hard-copy vision": that is the content of this article is what you would have if you printed it out: the hyperlinks are not part of the text.
• Any attached PDF files are part of the the text and will be preserved as accompanying documents.

2.2 What will be up-dated?

• The administrators of the Atlas will perform appropriate up-dates of static pages which do not effect their “hard-copy form".
• This includes keeping hyperlinks active and adding new categories to the page as appropriate.

2.3 What can be changed?

• Just as journals typeset their articles, minor type-setting adjustments can occur to the “hard-copy view" of static pages.