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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 an Instrument #265

Open agbeltran opened 2 years ago

agbeltran commented 2 years ago

Similar to https://github.com/icatproject/icat.server/issues/241, it would be useful to have a representative image associated with an Instrument to be able to display them in the associated UIs.

kevinphippsstfc commented 2 years ago

A simple fix for this, not requiring images to be stored in ICAT or perhaps a new ICAT component, would be to add an imageUrl field to Instrument. There is already a url field for a web page about the instrument.

RKrahl commented 2 years ago

I like the imageUrl idea. It could be used in any web user interface right away, without even the need to add any code to retrieve and display the image.

agbeltran commented 2 years ago

yes, agreed, it would be great to have imageUrl

agbeltran commented 2 years ago

Discussions in the ICAT collaboration meeting today raised a few interesting points: