On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote:
>> Do most DSpace respositories worry about removing old entries for >> e-people, or do you just let them reside in the system? We are >> debating the >> need to remove them, and when we do try to remove them we >> encounter that >> they are somehow mapped to items they have submitted: > > If you remove an e-person who is responsible for some part of the > submission process on items in the repository, you remove provenance > information. This isn't desirable from a preservation perspective. > > It may be harmless to remove otiose e-people (but do they have email > subscriptions to any collections or communities?), and it makes > perfect sense to review authorization groups now and then to remove > privileges from e-people who shouldn't have them, but the error > message you note should in my opinion be respected, and the e-people > left in the system. Good point, yes, I suspect submitters should need to stick around, but be shutdown, for instance, you can change their status to "Cannot Log in". (maybe we should rephrase this function as "disable account" so people feel more comfortable keeping the EPerson sitting around in the system). -Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
