I am confused regarding references

[johanvonboer]

I'm going to try and make sense out of this here, the following might be mostly a note-to-self. (Reader beware! Beyond this point lies madness.)

What we currently call 'Dataset reference' in the landing pages are what's called 'site references' in the database (they come from tbl_site_references).

And what we currently call "Other site metadata" in the landing pages are actually the 'dataset contacts' (but not references).

We also do have something called 'other records' in tbl_site_other_records, but they are not references (?) and have their own issue here: https://github.com/humlab-sead/sead_browser_client/issues/302

Finally, we do have dataset references as well.

A summary of what we have is:

• Site references in tbl_site_references
• Dataset references through tbl_datasets.biblio_id
• Dataset contacts via tbl_dataset_contacts (we also have tbl_dataset_submissions with a contact_id column - is this related?)
• We also have sample group references through tbl_sample_group_references
• Other records through tbl_site_other_records

My questions:

• What, precisely, is the difference between a dataset contact and a dataset reference?
• Where should it all go?

[johanvonboer]

A question: I have now implemented that the dataset references also appear as a button on each dataset: Which will open a popup:

My question is if it's better to hide the "Reference" button on the datasets which do not have references, or if it's better to always have it there and then let the popup look like this: