Patrick Hargitt
Patrick Hargitt is co-founder and CEO of Olive Turn, which puts trusted content to work in AI so researchers can advance knowledge while publishers retain control and grow value. He brings 30 years of experience across software engineering, platform architecture and product strategy, including a decade at Wiley's Atypon division, where he led product strategy and roadmap for its scholarly publishing platform. Patrick co-chairs the NISO Journal Article Versions revision and contributes to industry initiatives advancing trust and transparency in scholarly communication.
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.