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Referent_ID weirdness #182

Closed elizabethyalkut closed 12 months ago

elizabethyalkut commented 1 year ago

While working on the map -- using data from Khanh so the lat/long info corresponds to the correct place name -- I'm trying to link to a person who is recorded at the given point. But the "Referent_ID" I have access to doesn't match what I expect.

For example: in the data provided, George Weymouth has the Referent_ID 3002. The URL /redesign_citations/996/#/1242/3002 lets an RA edit George Weymouth. But the URL /people/3002 is for a totally different, unrelated person. George Weymouth is viewable at /people/2998/. I have no access to this uuid atm; what DB field needs to be added to the geojson Feature so I link the correct person?

birkin commented 1 year ago

@elizabethyalkut -- not an answer (I'll get you one), but some context... When a person-mentioned-in-a-record is added, that person is added to a Referent table.

IIRC, there is before-my-time code that also attempts to auto-populate a People table. I don't remember the logic of the code, I recall it very-mildly attempts to solve the "This referent is the same as that referent." problem -- maybe via similar name and dob? Because it's not reliable, I've strived to not advertise the People table data. But there is an existing People page that I think the research-assistants still find useful. (I've long wanted to replace that with a listing of Referents.)

Ok, context done; I'll look at your actual question.