Manifold Atlas:Evolving pages and static pages

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

1 Dynamic Pages

• The evolving pages of the Atlas are its main engine: they are the place where knowledge is organised and created.
• Evolving pages can be either open-eiting or author-based pages. An important goal of an evolving page is maturity after which is refereed and hopefully approved.
• On approval a static version of dynamic page is created as long term scientific reference.
• 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 all edits 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 has a revision number which can be located by

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.

3 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.

4 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.

5 What can be change?

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