Approach to deleting items

Omeka S
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Hello all,

Recently, we had a bit of human error in our repository and a number of items were deleted that shouldn’t have been. We make regular backups of our database so there wasn’t too much of a problem, though recovering media files was a bigger issue.

But it got me wondering if anyone has a different approach to deleting resources and records? I was wondering if we should develop a way of ‘deactivating’ items rather that fully deleting them. That way things wouldn’t be fully gone.

Does anyone else do something like this or something different than just deleting records entirely?

Thanks,

Joe

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Take a look at Necropolis, it may be just what you’re looking for.

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Yes, that is what I’m looking for, thanks!

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One thing I thing would be useful with a module like Necropolis is the ability to restore deleted records. It looks like it just tracks what has been deleted but save the record itself.