I don't think anything material can be truly immortal. With Handles,
theres an attempt to be persistent, but the whole Handle resolution
framework has no means to guarantee that a handle is going to be resolved
nor any information retainable concerning what it pointed at. At least
with DSpace's current implementation. Thats part of the "misconception",
take down your handle server, and no one can resolve anything about your
minted handles any longer. Not even to identify the URL they were
originally pointing at. Add onto this, that deleting an Item results in no
record of that Item existing any longer in DSpace (outside of dspace.log).
That doesn't sound like persistence to me, if your lucky some detail about
the item internal id is still mapped to the handle in the logs.
Mark
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not so sure that it is a bug to leave the handle record behind
> when deleting an object. Shouldn't Handles be immortal, since they
> are meant to be forever unique? At the very least it is a form of
> protection against somehow reissuing that Handle.
>
> Probably it is about time to refresh our thinking on what it should
> mean to delete an object from a repository.
>
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