Bug 30887

Summary: Gravestone page for deleted authorities or biblios
Product: Koha Reporter: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy>
Component: OPACAssignee: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: dcook
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20065
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Description Marcel de Rooy 2022-06-02 11:54:45 UTC
When you assign a persistent identifier to your Koha record (auth or biblio) and you delete that record at some point in time, it would be good to resolve the persistent identifier to a gravestone/tombstone page that at least tells that the record has been deleted, perhaps even more.
Comment 1 Marcel de Rooy 2022-06-02 12:01:01 UTC
See also bug 30888, that proposes to add a deletedauthorities table.
Comment 2 David Cook 2022-06-03 01:14:22 UTC
It's an interesting idea. 

I first bumped into it using Fedora 4.x where they have a similar tombstone concept: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=34649759

Maybe we could have a system preference to show a tombstone page if there is an entry in the deletedbiblio table and we could return a status of "410 Gone". 

That seems like a pretty straightforward solution to me. 

I think having a system preference is probably a good idea as people might rely on the current behaviour... which actually redirects to 404.pl with a status of 200. Huh. That's not so great either...
Comment 3 Marcel de Rooy 2024-04-18 07:54:50 UTC
Bug 30888 provides a foundation for the authority side now by keeping the deletes in a table.