Bug 30887 - Gravestone page for deleted authorities or biblios
Summary: Gravestone page for deleted authorities or biblios
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: OPAC (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement
Assignee: Marcel de Rooy
QA Contact: Testopia
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Depends on: 30888
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Reported: 2022-06-02 11:54 UTC by Marcel de Rooy
Modified: 2024-04-18 07:55 UTC (History)
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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.