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Each stage is intended to be a realized as a versioned tag, allowing for both a transparent understanding of the writing process -- by examining the writing history -- as well as for a clean handle on each life-cycle stage. This increases the potential compatibility with copyright policies, where the preprint can be offered as a free public open-access copy, while the authors continue to improve the latest peer-reviewed version towards the final postprint copy, both of which may (unfortunately) need to remain behind a publication paywall. While we see no technology barrier to ``living papers'' that continue to be constantly improved on Authorea, without ever being considered ``finished'', our current focus is on publications that are considered finished after all peer-review remarks have been addressed.  \subsection{Identifiers and Notability}  First, we consider all modalities of content (mathematical formulas, tables, figures, etc.) as components of the published scientific work. A successful scientific study concludes with a written publication, which acts as its identifier to the wider scientific community, usually realized via a DOI identifier for the proceedings, and a unique URL for the Authorea preprint\footnote{Work preprint.\footnote{Work  is in progress for minting separate DOI identifiers also for Authorea preprints.}. preprints.}  We remain open and compatible with identifying supplementary data and information as attachments to the Authorea paper. In cases where the data surpasses either certain size or notability thresholds, we consider it deserving of a separate DOI identifier and publication, and envision a paradigm of ``active citations'' of such datasets. By that we understand that a citation to an external dataset, when connected to an Authorea active figure, could dynamically compute views into the experimental data summarized by the figure. While ``active citations'' are not yet available on our platform, they are part of the Authorea vision going forward. To summarize, we expect scientific bodies of work of sufficient notability to receive unique identifiers, with independent recognition for data, descriptions and tools, and expect a rich computational interplay between them in the foreseeable future.