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

SYNOPSIS
    scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid

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 scrol-
    lkeeper-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.

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), scrollkeeper-update(8)