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(Prototype) UI like keybase using ala-keys services
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Key metadata #6

Open nielsklazenga opened 9 years ago

nielsklazenga commented 9 years ago

KeyBase currently has very few metadata fields for keys. These are required fields Name, Taxonomic scope and Geographic scope and the optional Description and Notes. Furthermore there are several fields to deal with metadata for the source publication, if the key is based on a published key. These fields are often abused for key metadata for unpublished keys, indicating that we should think of additional key metadata fields.

KevinThiele commented 7 years ago

The metadata fields work very well for borrowed keys, but not for born-KeyBase keys. Suggest having two radio-button options after the core metadata (scopes etc):

[ ] Key first published elsewhere [ ] Key first published in KeyBase

If the first radio-button is chosen, the current publication metadata fields will open. If the second radio-button is chosen, only the following metadata fields open

Author Date (is this needed?) Title

KevinThiele commented 7 years ago

It's not clear what Description and Notes are for - I find that I never use them. They could probably be merged into a single Notes field. Or perhaps a "Displayed Notes" and "Other Notes" field - see below.

It would be good at times to be able to display some brief notes above the key when the key is viewed (currently both fields are buried under the About tab). This would then be a useful spot to put user notes - those brief notes that provide help to users about some aspect of the key. If used for that purpose, in their current location on About these will rarely be accessed.