[Dspace-general] Tombstones for withdrawn items -- how to add, customize?

[Jim Ottaviani]

Hello all,

In the DSpace documentation at
   http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/functional.html 
I see the following:

"[Items] may be 'withdrawn', which means they remain in the archive but 
are completely hidden from view. In this case, if an end-user attempts 
to access the withdrawn item, they are presented with a 'tombstone,' 
that indicates the item has been removed. For whatever reason, an item 
may also be 'expunged' if necessary, in which case all traces of it are 
removed from the archive."

I have a few questions about this very desirable feature:

1) Items I've withdrawn do not appear to have tombstones. How do we make 
this happen as a matter of course?

2) Can we present the administrator with a menu of tombstone wordings? I 
note that MIT has a number of good suggestions for this at
  http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/build/policies/community-collection.html
and we'd like to do something similar.

3) Can we place tombstones on items that are expunged?

I suspect I'm missing something obvious in the documentation, but I just 
can't seem to find it...

Thanks!

Jim


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Jim Ottaviani
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University of Michigan Library
Coordinator, Deep Blue pilot project
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