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

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)