Aristotle Metadata Registry help documentation
  • Welcome to the Aristotle Metadata Knowledge Base
  • Finding and Viewing Metadata
    • Search
      • Using omnisearch to find registry content
      • Using advanced search filters to find registry content
        • Advanced Search: Help
    • Browsing the registry
    • Item page breakdown
    • Searching for Alternate Names in the Search Bar
    • Viewing related items and graphs
    • Compare different versions of a metadata item
    • Bulk actions
    • Downloading Content
    • Generating an API token
  • Personalisation
    • Navigation Choices on 'My Dashboard'
    • Managing your account
    • How to reset your password
    • Invite/Reset Password Link Is expired
    • How to set up multi factor authentication
    • Roles in the registry
    • Viewing your roles
    • Favouriting and tagging content
    • Notifications
  • Creating and Editing
    • My sandbox
    • Metadata Toolbox
    • Creating metadata items
      • Creating a data element or data element concept
      • Creating a metadata item with a single item creation wizard
    • Editing content
    • Cloning
    • Deleting metadata items
    • Restore Deleted Content
    • How to create and link quality statements
    • How to create and link glossary items
    • How to record data lineage
    • How to add alternative names to a metadata item
    • How to move individual and bulk metadata into a collection
    • Upload Metadata Using Bulk Import Feature
    • HTML Sanitization
    • Version Control - Supersede
    • Classifications
    • How to link Quality statement to an Indicator?
    • Dataset Grouping
    • Property Groups
      • How to Create Property Groups In Aristotle Registry?
    • Object Class Specialisation
      • How to create an object class specialisation
  • Collaborating within the registry
    • Aristotle Help
    • How to add content to workgroups
    • Reviews
    • Aristotle metadata community
    • How to create Collections and Sub Collections
    • Issues and Change Requests
      • Creating an issue label
      • Creating an issue
      • Viewing all issues
      • Proposing a change request
    • Metadata History: Comparing change logs
  • Registration Authorities
    • Creating and editing registration authorities
      • Validation Rules
        • Setting validation rules
          • Writing validation rules
    • Directly endorsing metadata items
    • Managing members of a registration authority
  • Administrator Tasks
    • Managing user accounts
    • Creating and maintaining a Stewardship Organization
    • Creating and managing workgroups
    • Managing and adding members to a workgroup
    • Add a user to Multiple Stewardship Organizations and Workgroups
    • Creating and editing namespaces and identifiers
      • Configuring manually triggered incremental identifiers
      • Configuring automatically triggered incremental identifiers
    • Deactivating a user account
    • View CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) Changes
    • View deleted items using query string
    • Contact Form
    • Custom Item Templates
      • Creating and editing custom item templates
        • Creating and editing sub-pages
      • Creating metadata items using custom item templates
    • Task Runner
      • Resolving issues with the search function using reindex
      • Populating help pages using load help
      • Resolving issues with item visibility by recaching visibility
      • Viewing all recent and historical task runner information
    • Aristotle Cloud Settings Editor
      • Adjusting visual settings
      • Adding and deleting header and footer links
      • Adjusting general registry settings
      • Adjusting metadata and functionality extensions
      • Making workgroup changes
      • Toggling summary statistics
      • Adjusting separator options
      • Adjusting download options
      • Adjusting translation options
      • Adjusting search options
      • Adjusting spam detection options
    • Registry Customisation in Cloud Settings
    • Custom Domains
      • Requesting a custom domain
      • Setting up a custom domain
  • Registry configuration
    • How to customise a registry
    • Enabling self sign-up
    • Adjusting privacy mode settings
    • Adding a custom login message
    • Homepage Editor
      • Creating a custom homepage using the HTML editor
      • Creating a custom homepage using the safe editor
    • Adding custom HTML to the header and footer of the registry
    • Simple customisation of Header, Body, and Footer
    • Content policies
    • Adding custom fields
      • Custom Field: Structured Data (Json) Type
  • Stewardship Tasks
    • Collection publication and permissions
    • Publishing metadata
    • Creating and managing registration authorities
    • How to add members to a stewardship organisation
    • How to create alternative name types
    • Metadata Report Builder
    • Reference Document Uploads to the Registry
    • Linking reference documents to metadata items
    • Remove Metadata from Workgroup
    • Organisation Records
      • Creating, managing and deleting an organisation record
      • Linking an organisation record to a metadata item
  • Subject Matter and Theory
    • What is metadata?
    • Data Dictionary
    • ISO/IEC 11179 data element representation
    • Bulk Import
    • Data Lineage
    • MAST(Metadata Analysis Standards Teamwork) Methodology and IDEAL Framework
      • Aristotle metadata user guides
  • Special features
    • Generating a Business Information Model using the Visualization Tool
    • Registering an app with the app store
    • Metadata Merger Tool
      • How to set up rules in the merger tool?
    • Federation
      • How do I federate content from another Aristotle Metadata Registry?
  • Geospatial Information
  • Checking for duplicates in the registry
  • Custom Field Bulk Uploader
    • Uploading structured data (JSON) custom fields
    • Bulk Importing Alternative names and Identifiers
  • System Users
  • Single Sign On
    • How to invite and update permissions of Aristotle Metadata staff on a client registry
  • Tablion - Data request portal
    • How to Extract Datasets from the Aristotle Metadata Registry into Tablion
  • Data Inventory View
  • Accessing the Aristotle Metadata Academy
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  • How to delete metadata from the Sandbox
  • How to delete metadata that is registered
  • How to delete metadata from a workgroup
  • How to delete metadata from a Stewardship Organization
  • How to delete multiple metadata items at once using bulk delete
  1. Creating and Editing

Deleting metadata items

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Last updated 5 months ago

As the Aristotle Metadata Registry is intended to be an authoritative record of all the ‘business intelligence’ around data, content cannot be permanently deleted from the registry. However, in order to facilitate the maintenance of an up-to-date registry, Aristotle supports the soft deletion of content, which removes it from being displayed in the registry. Soft deleted items can be restored if they are required again.

To protect audit reports, metadata can only be deleted from a user's Sandbox. To return metadata to a user's Sandbox it must be removed from all groups, including Workgroups, Stewardship Organizations and Registration Authorities.

How to delete metadata from the Sandbox

All users can delete items in their Sandbox at any time.

  1. Select 'My Sandbox' from the left side panel.

  1. Select the 'Item actions' button next to the metadata item you want to delete and select 'Delete item'.

How to delete metadata that is registered

Only users with the appropriate permissions can delete registered metadata.

  1. Go to the item page and in the Info box select 'View registration history'.

  1. Select 'Manage', then 'Delete'. The registration status will be removed.

How to delete metadata from a workgroup

Only Users with the appropriate permissions can delete metadata from a workgroup.

  1. Select 'Workgroups' from the left side panel.

  1. From the 'Item actions' dropdown that relates to the desired item, select 'Remove from workgroup'.

2. Select 'Confirm', and the metadata will be sent to the sandbox of the user who created it. From there, it can be soft deleted.

How to delete metadata from a Stewardship Organization

  1. From the desired item's 'Actions' dropdown, select 'Change stewardship organization'.

  1. Select the cross on the right side of the 'Move item into this stewardship organization' field.

  1. Select 'Change Stewardship Organization'.

  1. The item will now appear in the sandbox of the user who created it. From there, it can be soft deleted.

How to delete multiple metadata items at once using bulk delete

  1. Select 'Browse' from the registry's header.

  1. Select 'Browse' from the 'Metadata' field.

  1. Select the metadata item type you wish to delete.

  1. Select the tickboxes of all of the items you wish to delete.

  1. Select the 'Bulk Action' dropdown, then 'Bulk delete'.

  1. If you wish to add more items, use the autocomplete field to search for, and add them to the list of items that will be deleted.

  1. Select 'Bulk Delete' once you are satisifed with your list. The items will be deleted, but can be restored via the procedure outlined in Restore Deleted Content.