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Tombstone

A record of a deletion, returned with 410 Gone when the implementation's top-level tombstonePolicy capability is "410". One policy covers RO-Crate, entity and file URIs alike.

idstring<uri>required

A URI-based identifier, used to reference the entity or file in the RO-Crate. This ensures global uniqueness and enables cross-linking of entities.

Example: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/NT1/001
resourceTypestringrequired

The kind of resource that was deleted.

Possible values: [RO-Crate, entity, file]

Example: RO-Crate
deletedAtstring<date-time>required

When the resource was deleted.

reasonstring

An optional human-readable reason for the deletion.

Example: Withdrawn at the depositor's request
roCrateIdstring<uri>

A URI-based identifier, used to reference the entity or file in the RO-Crate. This ensures global uniqueness and enables cross-linking of entities.

Example: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/NT1/001
Tombstone
{
  "id": "https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/NT1/001",
  "resourceType": "RO-Crate",
  "deletedAt": "2024-07-29T15:51:28.071Z",
  "reason": "Withdrawn at the depositor's request",
  "roCrateId": "https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/NT1/001"
}