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SCROLLKEEPER-UPDATE(1)                       DragonFly General Commands Manual

NAME
       scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid - generate a unique id for a document series
       for use in an OMF metadata file

SYNOPSIS
       scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid [--help]

DESCRIPTION
       This generates a unique id for use as the seriesid attribute to the
       relation element in the OMF metadata.  This id is referred to as the
       "series id" or "seriesid".

       The seriesid is used to specify a group (or series) of documents which
       are related.  For example, multiple versions, formats, and translations
       of a single document are considered to be in the same series.  Thus,
       any new version, translation, etc. of a pre-existing document should
       inherit the seriesid of the original document.  Only document series
       which have never been assigned a seriesid in the past should use
       scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid to obtain a new seriesid.

       ScrollKeeper uses the seriesid of documents to identify which documents
       are related to each other.  For example, when creating the contents
       list, ScrollKeeper must identify if two documents are in the same
       series in order to display the most complete set of documents on the
       system, using locale fallback for documents which may not be translated
       into a given locale, without displaying the same document in two
       locales.

OPTIONS
       --help Show usage (help) information.

AUTHOR
       Laszlo Kovacs   <laszlo.kovacs@sun.com>
       Dan Mueth       <d-mueth@uchicago.edu>

SEE ALSO
       scrollkeeper-config(1), scrollkeeper.conf(5), scrollkeeper(7),
       scrollkeeper-preinstall(8), scrollkeeper-rebuilddb(8), scrollkeeperupdate(8)
       

scrollkeeper                   December 5, 2001         SCROLLKEEPER-UPDATE(1)