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Better label for 'dataProvider' facet #17

Closed twagoo closed 7 years ago

twagoo commented 8 years ago

The 'dataProvider' facet is labeled as 'Data provider' in the VLO user interface, but that term is unclear and potentially misleading to the end user (in particular, it seems to clash with organisation and/or collection). Change the label text to a more distinctive and helpful name (facet can keep its internal name).

teckart commented 7 years ago

I would go for "Research infrastructure" here. That should match the actual content (CLARIN/Europeana/DARIAH/.../other) good enough and is still short enough to match with the other labels. In addition for a better understanding a descriptive tooltip might also be helpful.

twagoo commented 7 years ago

Remark from @dietervu:

[Research infrastructure] would imply that all metadata providing parties belong to a RI - which is not necessarily the case (but that also depends on one’s definition used)

He proposes 'Source' or 'Metadata source' instead. Obviously less specific and therefore a bit vaguer but I think that at least it is clearer than 'Data provider'.

teckart commented 7 years ago

I have no problem with that, but I don't really understand the argument. There is still "other" for non-matches among the facet values. I assumed that the harvester output structure reflects the afflliation of a MD provider to an RI (or the lack of affiliation in this case). "(Metadata) source" seems to me even more misleading as most users would probably expect information about the endpoint or providing organisation. On the other hand, as you already mentioned: everything is better than "Data provider" - I would change it to "Metadata source" the next days if we don't come up with something better.