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Feature Request/Idea: As a researcher, I'd like to be sure that the published dataset I tried to access has been deleted (destroyed) #9446

Open jggautier opened 1 year ago

jggautier commented 1 year ago

Overview of the Feature Request

What kind of user is the feature intended for? (Example users roles: API User, Curator, Depositor, Guest, Superuser, Sysadmin) Curator, depositor, guest, superuser

What inspired the request? A conversation with Kelly Stathis from DataCite about published datasets in Dataverse repositories that are then destroyed. She recommended that when users follow a DOI url of a dataset that has been destroyed, they're taken to a page that lets them know that the dataset was deleted, even if the page doesn't include any metadata about the dataset.

As of v5.13, users are taken to a 404 Not Found page, which is shown when any page doesn't exist, such as a Dataverse collection page.

For example, the DOI url https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2SYZDT used to point to a dataset in the Harvard Dataverse Repository that was destroyed. It now points to a 404 Not Found page:

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What existing behavior do you want changed? When users follow a DOI url that belongs to a published dataset that was deleted, they're taken to a page that lets them know that the dataset was deleted.

jggautier commented 1 year ago

Although the recommendation is originally about DOIs, Dataverse repositories publish datasets with other types of persistent IDs, so I think it's worth thinking about how to improve the webpage that users see when they try to access deleted datasets that were published with any kind of persistent ID, in which case we might broaden the scope of this issue and adjust the title or create separate issues for other different types of persistent IDs.