On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Kristian Roberto Salcedo <k.r.salc...@ub.uio.no> wrote: > Thank you for answering so swiftly. > But are you saying that this part of the documentation > https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=45548245#OAI-PMHDataProvider2.0(Internals)-Deletions > is incorrect and that Dspace only supports deletions "transiently"?
I think the docs are open to interpretation a little bit. If you have a policy to withdraw items instead of deleting them, then you have persistent repository in the OAI-PMH sense. However, actually deleting an item removes it from DSpace and DSpace can no more provide any information about it. So there's an impedance mismatch of the concept between DSpace and OAI-PMH. Secondly, if you run a full import, I think the state information may be lost. But it's been a long time since I last verified, so correct me if I'm wrong. > If so, wouldn’t it mean that all who harvest us would have to perform > complete harvests every time in order to keep track of changes in our > repository unless we create custom solutions in order to reveal deleted > status? If you implement a policy to only ever withdraw items, I think you're fine. But you should test what happens to them during "oai import -c". Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
