To be clear, I want to reinstate the same resource - not to have the URI represent something different.
I see that the w3 team have been debating this issue: http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/track/issues/24. It looks like they left it up to implementers to decide what their servers will do but that clients have no right to expect any particular behavior. Is there any configurable parameter in marmotta that influences marmotta's behavior in this issue ? What do other people do in this situation, is it common to avoid actually deleting anything and instead mark a resource as deleted by adding a triple, or maybe they mark it as unreadable through security somehow ? It seems awkward to have to assign a new different resource id to the same resource, especially since any "sameAs" relationships could not reasonably point to the deleted old URI. Many thanks Alan From: Robson, Alan Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 5:50 PM To: users@marmotta.apache.org Subject: Does LDP DELETE mean forever ? Hi When I DELETE a resource using the LDP interface it seems final - I can never use the same resource ID again (ie the Slug). Is there some way to restore a deleted resource ? For example, If I DELETE http://192.168.0.11:8080/marmotta/ldp/Test I can no longer PUT to http://192.168.0.11:8080/marmotta/ldp/Test to bring it back to life (410 - Gone) And If I try to create another http://192.168.0.11:8080/marmotta/ldp/Test The system creates http://192.168.0.11:8080/marmotta/ldp/Test-1 or some such thing. I understand the need to ensure that identifiers are never re-purposed, but I do occasionally make mistakes and it would be nice to be able to backtrack. Do I need to live with this as a harsh reality of linked data ? Maybe I just need to stop reading so much into the resource names and treat them as opaque. Also - once I have created a BNode, how can I delete it using the LDP interface please ? Many thanks for the excellent support Alan
