Continue to display item metadata publicly after withdrawal

[Matthias Letsch]

Hello,

If an item is withdrawn, the tombstone page will only display a simple note that the item has been withdrawn. The rest of the original landing page is then only visible as an admin.

I would like to display the item page in such a way that the metadata of the item still remains publicly visible, e.g. to give the reason for the withdrawal and an indication of a new/corrected/alternative publication in dc.description. Of course, the file should then no longer be available. (I do not want to enable versioning for our items for various reasons.)

Can I set this up somehow? E.g. via the access control - or do I really have to rework the corresponding components in the frontend?

[Fitchett, Deborah]

Would it work for you to simply delete the bitstream(s) or bundle(s), or to make them admin-only, and edit the metadata?

 

The metadata is part of the item, so withdrawing the item is expected to withdraw the metadata too.

 

(This said, in DSpace 5.x we got someone to fiddle with the tombstone page to display a replacedBy link if that was in the metadata. But I haven’t investigated the feasibility of that in DSpace 7.)

 

Deborah

 

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[Matthias Letsch]

Hi Deborah,

thanks for your reply and yes, that's actually the alternative solution I was thinking about, making the bitstream accessible only to admins and adding a note in dc.description. The only disadvantage would then be that the item is not marked as withdrawn in the database, which means that it would not be possible to make statistical evaluations from this field, for example. Just in case we ever need it. But even then you can query dc.description if necessary, it just might not be quite as clean.

Kind regards,

Matthias

[Peter]

I second this request for an option to provide a note for withdrawn items, where a reason for the withdrawal can be given. I hope this will be introduced eventually.

Peter