Check for the presence of the given metadata item

        :param string status_id:
            The metadata item ID
        :return:
            True if we have a metadata item with this ID, False otherwise

def has_obstory_metadata(self, status_id):
        """
        Check for the presence of the given metadata item

        :param string status_id:
            The metadata item ID
        :return:
            True if we have a metadata item with this ID, False otherwise
        """
        self.con.execute('SELECT 1 FROM archive_metadata WHERE publicId=%s;', (status_id,))
        return len(self.con.fetchall()) > 0