deleted records (RE: Harvesting experiences)

Ray Plante rplante at poplar.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Thu May 1 04:25:06 PDT 2008


Hi Kevin,

I just wanted to second Gretchen's comments on the topic of deleted 
records.  If we were all more in sync, it would be easier to start afresh.
Ultimately, it's up to you.

cheers,
Ray

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Gretchen Greene wrote:
> No problem, since you have been running for a while it makes sense you would
> have deleted resources appearing.
> Technically it shouldn't matter for the harvesting because the new
> registries will start with a clean slate and have
> nothing to delete (assuming it doesn't break on the ingest).
>
> It would be nice however if we could have only active resources for the turn
> on of the new registries such that as deleted resources appear,  we can
> validate that our systems are synchronizing properly and that the resources
> from previous published versions are no longer required.
>
> -Gretchen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] On Behalf Of
> KevinBenson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:23 PM
> To: Matthew Graham
> Cc: Gretchen Greene; 'Guy Rixon'; 'IVOA Registry WG'
> Subject: Re: Harvesting experiences
>
> I missed that memo.  I remember from our telecon that it was agreed any
> deleted resources from 0.10 do not need to be converted to 1.0  But did
> not know that on April 21st to remove any of the deleted resources that
> has happened (if you were already using 1.0).
> *Note Astrogrid has been on 1.0 from some months so that is why a few
> deleted ones came in.
>
> So Matthew and Gretchen what would you prefer.  I can remove those few
> resources tomorrow morning from the database quite easily so there are
> no 'deleted' resources.  Or would you prefer to leave 'as is'
>
> cheers,
> Kevin
>
> Matthew Graham wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> That was my understanding as well which is why I flagged these items.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Matthew
>> On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Gretchen Greene wrote:
>>
>>> I thought the plan was for the initial VOR 1.0 populations that we
>>> would do
>>> a 'fresh' harvest and not have
>>> Deleted resources,  then for ongoing operations,  the deleted resources
>>> would be included so that we can
>>> Keep synchronization.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] On
>>> Behalf Of
>>> Guy Rixon
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:50 AM
>>> To: KevinBenson
>>> Cc: Matthew Graham; IVOA Registry WG
>>> Subject: Re: Harvesting experiences
>>>
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>
>>> independent of the details of OAI, I see a practical problem with
>>> returning deleted records in that we build up many of these over
>>> time. I think it could bog down the harvesting. So this is at least
>>> "fix later" if not "fix RSN".
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Guy
>>>
>>> On 29 Apr 2008, at 10:28, KevinBenson wrote:
>>>
>>>> For (3)  is there a problem with returning deleted records?
>>>>
>>>> Matthew Graham wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I did a harvest of all registries in the RofR this evening and found:
>>>>>
>>>>> (3) There are deleted records being returned:
>>>
>>>
>



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