Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Assessment items discussion thread -- semantics of versioning

Stan wrote

<blockquote> the CR provides two main ways to "reuse" things
An existing cr_item can either get a new cr_revision, or
it can be cloned completely into a new cr_item.
</blockquote>

This notion of reuse does not seem to fit with the reuse in the Content Packaging Standard IMS CP, and is therefore questionable, and the versioning concept is only an obstacle in filestore, anyway. In IMS CP, this distinction between version and clone is not necessary, nor is the question

<blockquote> If an author takes a multiple-choice Item with three
options, and then adds a fourth, is this Item now a "small"
version change? Or is it a fundamentally different Item?
</blockquote>

because either the reusable entities like the three options are separately addressible for reusage, or they are not considered worth being reused.

Even if the IMS standards are not yet complied to or will never be met, it would be useful to align the principal notions with the standard's concepts, wouldn't it?