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Attribute alias capability #115

Open danhartline opened 11 years ago

danhartline commented 11 years ago

Need an "alias" capability for a) attribute names, and b) search terms (tags). At times one wants to change the name applied to an attribute or a tag, when it turns out upon use that the name was not adequate for what it was meant to indicate. In such a case, it would be good to be able to define an alias or synonym for that name (it might even supersede it in display and be synonymous in searches). Thus the attribute "Location" in the copepod TEM template really should be "Section location," and a synonym for "Mitochondrion" (as a tag) would be "Mitochondria" and vice versa. [if this is difficult, don't bother -- the straight text search is adequate]