Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
On 2003-11-05 09:11:38 +0000 paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
I would like to add biblio deletion before releasing the next version.
I would like to have this working, but not restructured. I have been told that state-funded UK libraries may need to keep records of deleted books until their next audit. I am trying to get more details about this.
Koha currently moves things to a "deleted" table is that right? Are you talking about a purge of that table, or really deleting things instead of making the move, or just making that move? I think we would agree that biblios shouldn't be deleted off disk as a matter of course unless basically people are running out of disk space, or wish to purge.
If I was to take a stab, I'd think that biblios shouldn't be "really deleted" for a year, for exactly the sort of reasons that MJR mentions
I mean : For instance, nothing is deleted in MARC-DB. And you can't delete from MARC view of the biblio. That's trully a problem :-) I plan to : * write MARCdelbiblio & MARCdelitem * write NEWdelbiblio & NEWdelitem * modify OLDdelbiblio & OLDdelitem to delete MARC stuff too * add a column (blob) in deletedbiblio => the MARC version of the biblio will be stored in this field. Same for items. HTH -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)