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• a reference for a specific setup, see ‘History and Citing’ at spaces.awi.de/x/zYa0FQ
• a stable representation in the Data Web Service (DWS, spaces.awi.de/x/aZgTF), because reassigning an item without a version of the former state makes its metadata volatile in DWS.

Since creating a new version can be omitted when reassigning an item, there is still the chance to do so (just for the case you recognized it was mistakenly without version) by manually create the mounting event and hence triggering the creation of a version. 

‘Actions’ additionally give you as a user a chance to become more visible in DWS. Properly added missions make this data stream pop up there in the facet ‘Mission’. Furthermore entries of the types ‘Mission’ and ‘Deployment’ are searchable in DWS.

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