Patrick Hargitt
Patrick Hargitt is a senior product and technology leader with 30 years of experience across software engineering, platform architecture, and product strategy. He now works independently through Olive Turn, helping publishers navigate how AI and automation are reshaping what content must support. Previously at Wiley’s Atypon division, he led the roadmap and vision for the world’s most widely used scholarly publishing platform. Since 2015, his work has focused on advancing digital publishing platforms and workflows for scholarly communication. Patrick collaborates closely with publishing partners and industry groups to improve accessibility, engagement, and research impact.
Session
Research articles still lack a common way to keep a stable identifier while also supporting precise citation of specific versions. Too often, platforms either overwrite an article so the reference remains stable or mint a new PID for every update, even when that adds cost, citation ambiguity, and metadata overhead. In this session you will see how the revised NISO Journal Article Versions (JAV) recommendations introduce semantic versioning as a clearer alternative to article overwrites or to minting yet another PID. You will learn how semantic versioning can identify the exact version used, when it can work better than assigning another PID, and where a new PID still makes sense. You will also see how this approach affects citations, publisher policies, preprint workflows, and the display of an article's version history.