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+Can be multiple releases for each work:
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+- required: most canonical published version ("version of record", what would be cited)
+    => or, most updated?
+- optional: mostly openly accessible version
+- optional: updated version
+    => errata, corrected version, or retraction
+- optional: fulltext indexed version
+    => might be not the most updated, or no accessible
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+## Initial Plan
+
+Index all fatcat works in catalog.
+
+Always link to a born-digital copy if one is accessible.
+
+Always link to a SIM microfilm copy if one is available.
+
+Use best available fulltext for search. If structured, like TEI-XML, index the
+body text separate from abstracts and references.
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+## Other Ideas
+
+Do fulltext indexing at the granularity of pages, or some other segments of
+text within articles (paragraphs, chapters, sections).
+
+Fatcat already has all of Crossref, Pubmed, Arxiv, and several other
+authoritative metadata sources. But today we are missing a good chunk of
+content, particularly from institutional repositories and CS conferences (which
+don't use identifiers). Also don't have good affiliation or citation count
+coverage, and mixed/poor abstract coverage.
+
+Could use Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) metadata corpus (or similar) to
+bootstrap with better metadata coverage.