Sally,
Do you need anything more than dc:isReplacedBy? The presence of this in itself says the record has been suppressed/replaced.
Regards
Rod
On 2 Oct 2006, at 15:12, Sally Hinchcliffe wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting but I'm trying to get a reasonably quick response ...
I'm trying to finalise the IPNI LSID server as far as I can. One of the issues that was raised at the GUIDs workshop was how to handle deleted records. In IPNI we suppress records where they have been duplicated. There are a high number of duplicates in IPNI and as we start identifying true duplicates and linking them, the number of suppressed or deprecated records will rise and the chances of someone having an id which resolves to a now suppressed record will become quite high
What I'd like to do if someone asks for a suppressed record is to return metadata which just indicates the record is suppressed (or deleted) plus if relevant a pointer to the preferred record
For the latter we can use dc:isReplacedBy which I think is what IF are using
For the former - I couldn't find any really obvious existing tag in use out there. What are other people using? Or do you have any suggestions or examples of deleted records?
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