[Dspace-general] DSpace Archiving

[Scott P. Muir]

I am envisioning the following situation


In May Dr. Smith enters a document into the DSpace repository.  Over 
the next few days through a series of edits, Dr. Smith accidentally 
deletes the document out of DSpace, but isn't aware of the 
mishap.  Dr. Smith then leaves for the summer.  In September, Dr. 
Smith comes back, tries to look at the document and discovers it is 
not there.  Dr. Smith then calls the library demanding to know what 
happened, and informing the library that the missing document was the 
only copy.  Another scenario could have a document become corrupted 
through some bad editing, e.g. poor use of find/replace.


We are exploring this on two tracks:  1- not letting anyone, but a 
very few defined number of people, delete or replace documents once 
they are in the repository or 2) developing a comprehensive long term 
strategy for retention of backups of the documents, etc, in DSpace so 
that we could restore a document.

Has anyone else discussed this and come up with what you feel is an 
appropriate solution?

Thanks for the input.

Scott P Muir
Associate University Librarian
Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 200F
Eastern Michigan University
955 West Circle Drive
Ypsilanti, MI  48197-2207

734.487.0020 x2222 (voice)
734.484.1151 (fax)
http://www.emich.edu/halle/

mailto:scott.muir at emich.edu