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Widget: When a ThingT is declared multiple times in the same docmap, the UI should show a union of all the attributes it has across all declarations #171

Closed andrewedstrom closed 9 months ago

andrewedstrom commented 10 months ago

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ships commented 9 months ago

Instinct: do this merging if the ThingT is declared by its ID in the source docmap, but NOT if it is declared by DOI .

Rationale: DOIs are only "mostly" unique identifiers. We could do some empirical studying to see whether the fields in question ever or often disagree and therefore would cause trouble.

Caveat: the ID in the docmap is "unique", but we can't force users to do this correctly. I.e., they can generate docmaps stupidly and I have some expectation that they will do so. Therefore the same complaint re: DOIs may apply.