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The ICAT server offering both SOAP and "RESTlike" interfaces to a metadata catalog.
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Add representative image to Dataset #241

Open agbeltran opened 4 years ago

agbeltran commented 4 years ago

In order to display it in Graphical User Interfaces, it would be useful to have a representative image associated with a Dataset.

I suggest we add an image field to the Dataset class (https://repo.icatproject.org/site/icat/server/4.10.0/schema.html#Dataset). The ingestion process would select what that image should contain.

RKrahl commented 3 years ago

Just an idea, not sure if it is really useful: if we worry about the Dataset table to become too big because of all those thumbnail images, we could also store the thumbnails as files in the storage and make that image attribute in Dataset a relation to Datafile.